CALIFORNIA
San Gabriel Valley Tribune

By Dana Bartholomew and Barbara Jones, Staff Writers
dailynews.com
Posted: 02/01/2013

NORTH HOLLYWOOD — He had gone to school there. Launched his rise to cardinal there. And after a lingering clergy sex abuse scandal, retired to live there.

So parishioners at St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church expressed both pain and hope early Friday after retired Cardinal Roger Mahony was publicly rebuked by his successor.

“It’s OK, so far. It’s all good,” said Josephine Leong, 67, of Studio City, after a 7:30 a.m. Mass at the North Hollywood parish. “He’s retired anyway, so it doesn’t matter.

“I hope everything will be healed by the grace of God.”

The release last week of personnel files from the Los Angeles Archdiocese had already revealed that Mahony and a top aide had conspired decades ago to shield 14 pedophile priests from the law.