LOS ANGELES (CA)
Religion News Service
David Gibson | Feb 8, 2013
The public spitting match between Los Angeles Archbishop Jose Gomez and his predecessor, Cardinal Roger Mahony, must have been as uncomfortable as it was unusual.
But there are signs that maybe there’s been a reconciliation of sorts, or at least some couples counseling for the sake of their spiritual children.
Gomez publicly embarrassed Mahony last week with a reprimand after records were released (under court order) showing just how complicit Mahony, the longtime LA archbishop, had been in covering up for clergy abusers, thus allowing them to rape and molest other children.
(Gomez also demoted one of the LA auxiliaries and longtime Mahony aide, Bishop Thomas Curry; there was little Gomez could to do actually punish Mahony, who is retired and still outranks Gomez.)
Mahony responded with a PR counterattack, and the Vatican essentially washed its hands of the whole matter.
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