[NYer]

Former Oklahoma Frank Keating plans to resign as head of the church's National Review Board this week, before the bishops' semiannual meeting, Keating's spokesman, Dan Mahoney, said in Sunday's Los Angeles Times.

[NYer]

Cardinal Mahony, who Keating accused of listening "too much to his lawyer and not enough to his heart," issued a sharp rebuke Friday, calling the comments "the last straw" and saying he would ask other bishops to consider calling for Keating to step down during their meeting this week.

Keating's spokesman told the Times the former governor stands behind his remarks. "He uses strong language to make a point. He tells the truth, and apparently some people don't want to hear the truth," Mahoney said.

Interesting ... (Cardinal) Mahony and (Keating spokesman) Mahoney. Is this now the battle of the Mahon(e)y's?

May 26, 2003.  New!  The problem with Roger Mahony is that he is a shameless fraud.  Yesterday he dedicated a side altar to the abuse victims at his new cathedral.  Of course he did not want anything as messy as any victims around, so he and Tod Tamberg did not tell them or invite any victims. But Cardinal Mahony did invite all of the news media so they could all photograph him praying for the victims at his new little altar.  But it is all a fraud.

Cardinal Roger Mahony No Morals and No Ethics - Confirmed Again.

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We here in Oklahoma have been through this kind of thing with Keating for years. He's well-intentioned, but embarassing. Sometimes he makes ill-judged statements that have a certain truth to them - as in the current case, or when he said the Tulsa Public Schools were a total failure and the administrators were a fraud.

On the other hand, sometimes he's just a dope, as in the case when he told the First District voters that we were "stupid" not to vote for his wife in the Republican primary. (We have an excellent Republican congressman now, Mr. Sullivan.)

And I would hesitate to characterize Keating as a "devout and conscientious" Catholic. I'd want his (and hers) stands on Humanae Vitae to be on record. The fact that I can't say for sure, after seven years in the state, suggests that there's been a "politic" silence on this issue from the Keatings - which is quite atypical for the ex-Gov.

[eastsider]

The report follows on the heals of an interview in the Times in which Keating said a number of unnamed church officials have "clay feet." "To act like La Cosa Nostra and hide and suppress, I think, is very unhealthy. Eventually it will all come out," Keating said.

Truth has a force of its own, Cardinal Mahooey.