UNITED STATES
Irish Examiner

Saturday, February 23, 2013

The American cardinal who was accused of turning a blind eye to the crimes of Irish paedophile priest Oliver O’Grady will today be questioned about a Mexican priest believed to have molested 26 children.

By Stephen Rogers and Nicole Winfield

Cardinal Roger Mahony, the former Archbishop of Los Angeles, hit the headlines here when it was claimed he transferred O’Grady from diocese to diocese to mask his abuse of children.

O’Grady would eventually serve seven years in a US prison before returning to Ireland. He was sentenced to three years in prison last year when he was caught with a large haul of child pornography.

Now Cardinal Mahony is in the headlines once more. Last month, a Los Angeles court ordered hundreds of files detailing the activities of priests accused of sex abuse. The files show the cardinal and other top…