LOS ANGELES (CA)
Catholic World Report
February 01, 2013
By Carl E. Olson
Rocco Palmo provides an overview of the latest news from the Archdiocse of Los Angeles:
Ten days after an initial release from 30,000 pages of clergy sex-abuse files in the archdiocese of Los Angeles sparked widespread scorn and calls for the prosecution of now-retired Cardinal Roger Mahony and his then-vicar for clergy, now Auxiliary Bishop Thomas Curry, in a letter to the 5 million-member church released tonight, Archbishop José Gomez announced that the embattled auxiliary would be relieved of his pastoral oversight of Santa Barbara County, and that the iconic Mahony – the longest-reigning American cardinal named after Vatican II, whose quarter-century tenure saw the LA church become the largest diocese in the nation’s history – “will no longer have any administrative or public duties.”
This site created by the Archdiocese contains the clergy files in question; it states, “There are approximately 12,000 pages in the files being released, in accordance with the Court orders. Media reports that there were 30,000 or more pages were inaccurate.” It also explains, “124 files are being released with names. Of this number, 82 files have information on allegations of childhood sexual abuse and 42 files have no information on allegations of childhood sexual abuse but, in those instances, the ‘proffers’ are being provided.” Proffers are “summaries of personnel files, prepared for litigation that describe some of the documents in that file.”
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