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by Elizabeth Espinosa
KTLA 5 Reporter
NORTH HOLLYWOOD (KTLA) – Before Cardinal Roger Mahony heads to Rome to help elect a new pope, he’ll be questioned under oath next Saturday (Feb. 23) about his handling of clergy sex abuse cases.
The kinds of questions Mahony will face: did a visiting priest from Mexico abuse a local North Hollywood parishioner? And did the church — under Mahony’s guidance — stall in notifying police about the alleged abuse?
A judge has cleared the way for the deposition of Mahony to proceed, and has ruled that attorneys will have four hours to question Cardinal Mahony on the subject.
Mahony has been deposed several times since the late 1990′s about issues of alleged sexual abuse within the church.
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