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Frank Stoltze with KPCC wire services and KPCC staff

UPDATE 6:31 a.m.: The following is a sampling of the reaction to the release Thursday evening of thousands of pages of personnel files of priests accused of child molestation, and of Archbishop Jose Gomez’s decision to strip Retired Cardinal Roger Mahony of his duties:

•Los Angeles archdiocese: The files’ release “concludes a sad and shameful chapter in the history of our local church.”
•Archbishop Jose Gomez: “I find these files to be brutal and painful reading. The behavior described in these files is terribly sad and evil. There is no excuse, no explaining away what happened to these children.”
•Rev. Thomas Reese, a Jesuit and senior fellow at the Woodstock Theological Center at Georgetown University: “It’s quite extraordinary. I don’t think anything like this has happened before. It’s showing that there are consequences now…