LOS ANGELES (CA)
10 News
LOS ANGELES – One day after the release of personnel files of priests accused of sexual misconduct, victims of clergy abuse will push the Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles Friday to continue investigating the problem.
The diocese on Thursday released files on more than 100 clergy members, and Archbishop Jose Gomez said his predecessor — former Archbishop Roger Mahony — will “no longer have any administrative or public duties.” Meanwhile, Auxiliary Bishop Thomas Curry, Mahony’s former top adviser on sex-abuse issues, stepped down as Santa Barbara’s regional bishop.
“We suggest that Bishop Gomez do more from here and not treat what happened yesterday as the end of the line on this,” Joelle Casteix of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, or SNAP, told City News Service. “We want him to help support more police investigations into sexual abuse. For us, this is the beginning, not the end.”
Casteix and other SNAP members and their supporters held news conference outside the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels to discuss the issue, insisting that it was only through legal action and continued pressure by victims that the church finally took action.
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