While this is, in some ways, "old news," it also includes previously unrevealed details about how the Catholic Archbishop of Los Angeles actively participated in cover-ups to make sure that child abuse cases did not come to the attention of the police.
This isn't "Oh, well, we didn't understand it" or "Mistakes were made" or "Subordinates didn't bring it to our attention" stuff. This is in-writing "We better keep this guy away from a therapist because a therapist would have to report it to the police" stuff. From someone who claimed moral and pastoral authority over one of the largest dioceses in the Church in America.
I hope Abp. Mahony finds God much more merciful than I would be in His position.
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L.A. church leaders sought to hide sex abuse cases from authorities
Fifteen years before the clergy sex abuse scandal came to light, Archbishop Roger M. Mahony and a top advisor discussed ways to conceal the molestation of children from law enforcement, according to…
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