After One Cardinal Resigns, Catholics Ask: Who's Next?

MANCHESTER, N.H. -- Within hours of Cardinal Bernard F. Law's resignation on Dec. 13, an alleged victim of a pedophile priest stepped to the podium at a news conference in Boston and announced a new target.

"Bishop McCormack, we're coming after you," said Gary Bergeron, 40, referring to New Hampshire Bishop John B. McCormack, who was not present. "For every document I've seen with the name Bernard Law, I've seen 100 with the name Bishop McCormack."

Among the prelates under rising financial and legal pressure is Los Angeles' Cardinal Roger Mahony, who faces an onslaught of civil lawsuits in 2003 because the California legislature has lifted the statute of limitations for one year. Having spent nearly $200 million on a new cathedral, Mahony's archdiocese now faces budget cuts. A grand jury has subpoenaed its records on 17 priests, and Mahony has been personally implicated in the case of the Rev. Michael Baker, who says he admitted to the archbishop in 1986 that he had molested several boys. Baker was sent for psychological treatment and then transferred to nine different parishes before leaving the priesthood two years ago.

What possible plan could he have to worm his way out of this one?

Interestingly, Bishop Howard Hubbard seems to believe that with the resignation of Law, the worst is behind us. Uh uh!

Just logging onto the internet this afternoon, I had a Crisis (Deal Hudson) e-letter, which included the following:

Also, I need to alert you to a big news story that will be erupting soon. In the very near future, the archdiocese of Los Angeles will be releasing its files on their sex-abuse problems. Look for the Los Angeles Times to comb through the documents in a shocker that will rival the stuff we saw coming out of Boston. This will be an interesting test for Voice of the Faithful. I wonder if they'll go after Cardinal Mahoney the same way they did with Law. Since Mahoney is a bishop much more to their liking, their reaction may be revealingly muted...

More outrageaous quotes posted here:
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In depositions this fall, Bishop John B. McCormack said he knew the Rev. Roland Cote had had sex with a teen-age boy but noted that the boy was not a parishioner.
"You know, one is an activity where you have a trusted relationship with a parishioner. The other is an activity where you're away from the parish and you're off on your own," McCormack said in depositions obtained by The Associated Press on Monday. "I'm very concerned about that; he was a young person. But it's quite different from being with a parishioner."

Because Phony Cardinal Mahoney is a leftist cretin and heretic almost competitive with VOTF.

Start withn one Mr. James Carroll, who, before he fell in total love with Ho Chi Minh, was actually 0rdained to the priesthood for the Boston Archdiocese. He had been feuding with his father (of twelve) because his dad had the effrontery as a veteran FBI Agent who lateraled into the military intelligence at the level of Lieutenant General to disagree with the all-powerful leftist fantasies of little Fr. Jimmy. Not only that, but numbers of popes had the effrontery to disagree with him as well. Can you imagine?

Well, what is a priest of pristine leftist ideology in place of Catholicism to do? Why, cut off his dad and flee the priesthood, of course, to marry and "earn" a living as the Boston Globe's resident Catholic Church basher (long before recent scandals). His latest book is Constantine's Sword which explains why every misfortune ever suffered by Jews as a people resulted from direct Vatican orders (I exaggerate but not much). His previous autobiographical tomes are well worth reading for anyone considering taking him or VOTF seriously. Carroll is about as Cartholic as the late Pol Pot. He favors all the usual sexual aberrations including abortion and is not alone in that respect among VOTF leaders.

VOTF leaders include: Supporters of "Catholic" former theologian Hans Kung; the usual feminazi suspects; the witchcraft set; the enviro-worshipers; and those who think that Cardinal Law was entirely tooooooo right wing and repressive and disciplinary. Now the fact that Law should be burned at the stake does not mean that their indictment is correct.

Mahoney has built the just opened pagan temple of Los Angeles whose only cure is a wrecking ball; tried to have the Vatican discipline Mother Angelica for being a Catholic, unlike himself; has spent his career coddling and protecting lavender queens in Roman collars and has succeeded to Rembert Weakland's place as worst in show of our bishops. He is almost as bad as VOTF.

Ahhhh, but what do I really think?

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