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The Maui News
February 4, 2013 – Harry Eagar
I had been going to post a simple, obvious point — not restating it, since I haven’t seen it stated elsewhere — but waiting a day or two allowed the Catholic Church to reinforce my point in a way even I — ever pessimistic about the religion I was raised in — could not have foretold.
The obvious point is the Gomez, the cardinal who relieved the previous cardinal, Mahony, last week, has no objections to what Mahony did to protect child rapists in the Los Angeles archdiocese. If he had, he’d have suspended Mahony two years ago, when Gomez found out about Mahony’s rape mill.
Gomez did not act until Mahony was outed by the legal process. Therefore, we can be sure that if press and lawyers had not forced his hand, he would not have acted ever.
To date, so far as I have seen evidence, no member of the Roman Catholic Church management actually disapproves of child rape. If they did, they would act otherwise.
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