LOS ANGELES (CA)
National Post (Canada)
Araminta Wordsworth | Feb 5, 2013
Full Comment’s Araminta Wordsworth brings you a daily round-up of quality punditry from across the globe. Today: After more than a decade of bad press over its handling of child-molesting clerics, there are signs the Roman Catholic Church has learned its lesson.
The diocese of Los Angeles obeyed a court order Thursday, publishing the personnel files of 124 pedophile priests, 12,000 pages of records stretching back decades.
The files made abundantly clear, Cardinal Roger Mahony, the former archbishop, was a major part of the pedophile problem. He quietly moved culprits to other parishes, failed to inform police and seemed more worried about matters of liturgy than the victims.
The other shoe was quick to drop. Friday Archbishop José Gomez banned Mahony and his sidekick, auxiliary bishop, Thomas Curry from acting in any public capacity for the diocese. (As a cardinal Mahony can still help elect the next pope if this event occurs before his 80th birthday.)
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