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Posted by Barbara Dorris on February 01, 2013

Vindictive victims, greedy lawyers, salacious reporters, inept therapists, unfair laws – these are among the many targets of Cardinal Roger Mahony’s favorite hobby – blaming others for his archdiocese’s on-going clergy sex crimes and cover up crisis.

Today, he’s added another culprit: his allegedly poor education.

According to the National Catholic Reporter, Mahony writes on his personal blog that “Nothing in my own background or education equipped me to deal with this grave problem. In graduate school earning a Master’s Degree in Social Work, no textbook and no lecture ever referred to the sexual abuse of children.”

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This may well be Mahony’s wildest claim yet. Even grade school drop outs know that laws prohibit child sex crimes and that when we know about or suspect…