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	Roger the Dodger Rides Again By Rod Dreher Beliefnet July 15, 2007 http://blog.beliefnet.com/crunchycon/2007/07/roger-the-dodger-rides-again.html Los Angeles — LA's Roger Cardinal Mahony is going to cough $660 million of the faithful's money to settle sex abuse suits against his archdiocese. Oh, he's sorry: Cardinal Roger M. Mahony today apologized to victims of sexual abuse by priests in the Los Angeles Archdiocese, saying he wished he could do more to erase the pain they had suffered since they were molested as children. "Once again I apologize to anyone who has been offended and to anyone who has been abused in the Catholic Church. It should not have happened, and it should not ever happen again," Mahony said during a news conference at the Cathedral of Our Lady of Angels in downtown Los Angeles. If this brings the victims closer to closure, then good. But I am sorry that Mahony will not have to take the stand. Mahony is, in my view, a profoundly banal but evil man (see here for the tiniest taste of his character; the Bishop Accountability site has much, much more, if you can stomach it). He is probably the greatest episcopal villain in a scandal that has no lack of them. And unlike Cardinal Law, he has slipped the noose entirely. Roger has overcome. In this life, that is.
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