UNITED STATES
Voice from the Desert

Frank Douglas

Archbishop José Gomez of Los Angeles, Archbishop John Myers of Newark, and Bishop Robert Finn of Kansas City-St. Joseph have made headlines recently.

Archbishop Gomez and his predecessor Cardinal Roger Mahony were in the news on May 9, 2013, when the LA Times revealed that Mahony was publicly performing confirmations in apparent violation of Gomez’s January letter to the region’s more than 4 million Catholics which seemed to rule out any conspicuous place for Mahony in the archdiocese. Noting that the cardinal had “expressed his sorrow for his failure to fully protect young people entrusted to his care, ” Gomez told the faithful, “Effective immediately, I have informed Cardinal Mahony that he will no longer have any administrative or public duties.”

There have been recent calls for Archbishop Myers to resign, including from members of the New Jersey legislature, because of…