Dear God, please make your servant Roger stop talking.
It's funny what kicks you over the edge into returning to the blog.
Say with with me: "$660 million!"
Considering his own role in the perpetration of crimes by homosexual predators in the Los Angeles Archdiocese (do the names of priestly predators Father Michael Wempe and Michael Baker ring a bell?) the above "oops" speech from the Teflon Cardinal is vexing in the extreme. One need not ask why he didn't step down; that's obvious. The real question is, Why didn't the Holy See put some teeth into a "suggestion" that he do so?
Few people argue that Cardinal Law did worse than his more leftist brother Cardinal of the West. Yet the mainstream media treatment has been noticeably irenic, if occasionally scolding, toward Cardinal Mahoney.
I suspect our betters in the MSM admires the Cardinal's penchant for making "fall-over-yourself-with-compassion-understood-as-okaying-federal-crimes" statements like the one Mahoney made last week on illegal aliens -- in which, as always he avoids using the words illegal and aliens.
To quote another movie involving sheep, they wish they knew how to quit him.
posted by Patrick at 2:44 PM
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He has singlehandedly done more to kill the Church's credibility in SoCal than anyone else.
Drive-time radio refers to him as "Cardinal-Pedophile Mahoney, Defender of Child Molesters". Even Humanae Vitae is slammed as nothing more than a way to ensure a continuing supply of altarboys to molest.
SoCal Catholics are either swimming back across the Tiber or going to ground.
4:07 PM
Well, I have to say that I am a worse example of a good Catholic in SoCal than the Cardinal. To whom much is given much is expected...
I just wish the Holy Spirit would somehow send us a firebrand, fearless bishop, who'd make a point of going on talk radio shows as often as he's invited.
7:03 PM
Careful what you pray for! ; )
1:00 PM
Good point, anon. But still...
1:53 PM
I just wish the Holy Spirit would somehow send us a firebrand, fearless bishop, who'd make a point of going on talk radio shows as often as he's invited.
Especially at KFI. Both their morning & afternoon drive-time shows like a good scrap.
4:03 PM
Of course, no matter how eloquent and fearless you are, John and Ken (not to mention Bill Handel) are master's of talking over the guest, brusquely interrupting with a new set of questions. Only the thirsty will drink...
But yeah, great cage fighting material!
1:01 PM
I'm sure the good Cardinal's boyfriend is relieved this is over and they can now focus on getting ready for their trip to P-Town in August.
Patrick
1:30 PM
P-town? Ah, forget it, I don't want to know.
1:31 PM
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