LOS ANGELES (CA)
National Catholic Reporter
by Joshua J. McElwee | Feb. 20, 2013
For the third time in the past week, Cardinal Roger Mahony has written of the humiliation he has experienced since being publicly disgraced for his handling of priests accused of sex abuse in the 1980s.
Reflecting on the matter on his personal blog Wednesday, Mahony obliquely refers to his experience as a “painful and public humiliation, which is spiritually a grace-opportunity.”
Mahony writes that he has “tried to live out — poorly and inadequately far too often” two “implications of humiliation:”
1. “The acceptance of being scapegoated, pointing out the necessary connection between humiliation and redemption;”
2. That the Catholic church’s continuing sexual abuse scandals are “putting us, the clergy and the church, where we belong — with the excluded ones.”
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