Retired Cardinal Roger Mahony - another turd.

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Jan 22, 3:17 AM EST

Files show how LA church leaders shielded priests

GILLIAN FLACCUS
Associated Press

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Retired Cardinal Roger Mahony and other top Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles officials maneuvered behind the scenes to shield molester priests, provide damage control for the church and keep parishioners in the dark, according to church personnel files.

The confidential records filed in a lawsuit against the archdiocese disclose how the church handled abuse allegations for decades and also reveal dissent from a top Mahony aide who criticized his superiors for covering up allegations of abuse rather than protecting children.

Notes inked by Mahony demonstrate he was disturbed about abuse and sent problem priests for treatment, but there also were lengthy delays or oversights in some cases. Mahony received psychological reports on some priests that mentioned the possibility of many other victims, for example, but there is no indication that he or other church leaders investigated further.

"This is all intolerable and unacceptable to me," Mahony wrote in 1991 on a file of the Rev. Lynn Caffoe, a priest suspected of locking boys in his room, videotaping their crotches and running up a $100 phone sex bill while with a boy. Caffoe was sent for therapy and removed from ministry, but Mahony didn't move to defrock him until 2004, a decade after the archdiocese lost track of him.

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Caffoe died in 2009, six years after a newspaper reporter found him working at a homeless mission two blocks from a Salinas elementary school.

Mahony was out of town but issued a statement Monday apologizing for his mistakes and saying he had been "naive" about the lasting impacts of abuse. He has since met with 90 abuse victims privately and keeps an index card with each victim's name in his private chapel, where he prays for them daily, he said. The card also includes the name of the molesting priest "lest I forget that real priests created this appalling harm."

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Sorry, but your aide told you. And you engaged psychiatrists for the priest, but never asked them about victims. Wilfull ignorance and denial do not equal naivete, you liar. You also left a pedophile on the loose, unsupervised and unreported to the the authorities, with no evidence that you feared for his potential victims.

Clearly, your only concern was the perps and the church and the cover up. yYou did not give victims or potential victims any thought.
That is abundantly clear. And your lack of repentance is also plain, as you lie about naivete and piously point to your very belated prayers for the victims.

Your actions shout so loudly no one can hear your prayers, assuming that you were not lying about those as well.

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1. It doesn't end with Mahony.

This systemic abuse stretches far back into history.

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2. I have no doubt. The Church was very powerful for a very long time.

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3. I have no doubt. The Church was very powerful for a very long time.

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4. what a warped institution they have

they turned a blind eye (and possibly still do) to so much.

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6. Not so blind--or deaf. Mute though.

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5. What disturbed me the most about the Rev. Lynn Caffoe affair was something I read on the Guardian

Mahony received a report from a psychologist that said Caffoe was dangerous

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7. The only danger that mattered was the danger that the reputation of the Catholic

Church might suffer if these things became widely known.

How can you believe that the guy molesting your four year old is Christ on Earth, with power to transubstantiate a communion wafer?