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That\u2019s the stinging title of this piece from Real Clear Religion<\/a> <\/strong>by George Neumayr (h\/t New Advent<\/a><\/strong>) that bears reading this morning, as the aftershocks of yesterday\u2019s temblor<\/a><\/strong> continue to shake Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

A snip:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Referring to [Boston\u2019s Cardinal] Law, Cardinal Mahony piously told the press that \u201che would find it difficult to walk down an aisle in church if he had been guilty of gross negligence.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Cardinal Mahony was unleashing his attack dogs on anyone who probed his staggering negligence. Until the media furor of 2001, he had been planning on making a pedophile long known to him and residing in his living quarters, Father Carl Sutphin (with whom he had gone to seminary), associate pastor of the archdiocesan cathedral. \u201cI can\u2019t believe a cardinal keeps a pedophile on staff,\u201d said one of Sutphin\u2019s victims.<\/p>\n

Long before Leon Panetta joined the Obama administration as CIA director, he had scented out Cardinal Mahony\u2019s misdeeds. He \u201chas done tremendous damage to his reputation and the archdiocese,\u201d said Panetta after his spell as a member of the National Review Board, a watchdog group formed in the wake of the scandal. Panetta recalled a meeting at which Cardinal Mahony turned up with \u201cmore lawyers in the room than I\u2019ve ever seen.\u201d<\/p>\n

After Cardinal Mahony helped orchestrate the ousting of former Oklahoma Governor Frank Keating from the chairmanship of the National Review Board, Keating complained to the press that the cardinal had kneecapped him, likening his vicious behavior to that of \u201cLa Cosa Nostra.\u201d<\/p>\n

Throughout the abuse scandal, Cardinal Mahony has cast himself as a \u201cna\u00efve\u201d waif, guilty not of a cover-up but of mere cluelessness. The recently released files explode that claim. He knew perfectly well that he was hiding criminals. \u201cI believe that if Monsignor [Peter] Garcia were to reappear here within the archdiocese we might very well have some type of legal action filed in both the criminal and civil sectors,\u201d he wrote to the director of a New Mexico treatment center, asking him to keep the fugitive from justice holed up there.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read it all<\/a><\/strong>. \u00a0It helps put last night\u2019s seismic event<\/a><\/strong> in LA in context.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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