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Doug McIntyre: Facts blow holes in Cardinal Roger Mahony’s accounts
By Doug McIntyre, Columnistdailynews.com
Posted: 01/22/2013
He has index cards, says the Holy Man. And on those index cards are names. He prays in his chapel nightly for the names on those index cards.
They’re the names of children molested – even raped – by priests in his charge.
“I was naive” about abuse, says the Holy Man. “I’m sorry,” he says.
Which is not what he says in internal church documents, 30,000 unredacted pages worth, finally brought into the light of day after years of foot-dragging, stonewalling and legal maneuvering.
The Holy Man is the former head of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, Cardinal Roger Mahony.
In these documents we find the Smoking Cassock proving Mahony complicit in the cover-up of the worst crime short of murder, child molestation.
“This is all intolerable and unacceptable to me,” Mahony wrote in 1991.
Yet he continued to tolerate it. He continued to accept it.
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