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Posted by David Clohessy on February 20, 2013
Shame on Bishop Charles Scicluna. He is either deceptive or woefully ignorant about Cardinal Roger Mahony’s deliberate, decades-long work to conceal child sex crimes.
It’s just wrong for Scicluna to claim that Mahony “did what he could” but “made mistakes.” This implies that he attempted to do the right thing and failed. Yet what has been revealed from the recently released LA documents shows that Mahony repeatedly and purposefully acted in the best interests of predators, not kids.
Any reasonable person reading even a few of the thousands of pages of long-secret LA church abuse records would conclude that Mahony wasn’t “ignorant” or “ill-informed.”
Kids are safer when adults judge wrongdoers by real life standards, not by preposterous standards. It’s preposterous to claim that Scicluna is some kind of serious “reformer” just because most Catholic officials have even more horrific track records on abuse.
These comments illustrate that Scicluna is out of touch with reality but perfectly in line with the stance taken by other Vatican officials on child sex abuse. They claim to not have understood the problem and not known how to deal with it, despite their best efforts. This is ludicrous.
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