LOS ANGELES (CA)
Leon J. Podles: Dialogue
February 2nd, 2013
On rare occasions the clerical vetting system fails and a Christian becomes a bishop or even a pope.
A Catholic Christian knows the gravity of sin and the necessity of repentance, which includes doing penance to expiate sin.
If Archbishop Gomez were a Christian, he would first privately and then publicly address Cardinal Mahony in terms such as these:
My dear brother, I fear for your salvation and I do not want to see you burn forever in the fires of hell, alienated from God, condemned by the voices of the abused children whose bodies and souls you allowed to be ruined.
You must immediately and publicly repent.
Send your cardinal’s hat back to the pope. Resign your priesthood. It is better to enter into life a layman than to be cast with a cardinal’s robes into Gehenna.
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