LOS ANGELES (CA)
Leon J. Podles: Dialogue
Several people here and elsewhere have criticized Archbishop Gomez, He has been in charge of the Los Angles archdiocese for two years – why did he wait until now to do anything, as Mahony himself asked.
My guess is that events passed something like this:
When Gomez began archbishop, it took him a while to assimilate what had happened. He had enormous new duties as archbishop, the paper trail ran to tens of thousands of pages, and the leftover staff from Mahony’s years was not in a hurry to point out how compromising the documents were.
When Gomez realized what had happened, he knew he had to do two things: release the documents and rebuke Mahony.
They had to be done simultaneously.
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