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	Cardinal Mahony Says He Was Assaulted By Will Swaim District Weekly December 4, 2007 http://thedistrictweekly.com/daily/briefing/2007/12/04/cardinal-mahony-claims-he-was-assaulted/ Here's what the Daily News writes in breaking the story: "Cardinal Roger Mahony was physically assaulted by a man enraged by the Catholic Church's sexual-abuse scandal within days of a record settlement with hundreds of victims, the Daily News has learned." But that's not what the Daily News learned. In fact, it learned through four priests that Mahony CLAIMS he was attacked. That comes out in the second paragraph: "Mahony, 71, revealed the attack during an annual conference in October before hundreds of stunned priests, saying a man assaulted him because of the scandal, according to four priests who attended the conference." The claim came out as part of Mahony's attempt to show he now really understands the feelings of child victims of predator priests. He's just like them. There's much that's weird about this, including the fact that Mahony waited months to make public the allegation and refused to confirm the story because (a spokesperson said) it was part of a "private conversation" "between the priests and their bishop . . . and not meant to be public." Buried is one of the story's most important grafs: "He apparently decided not to go public with the assault, and Los Angeles Police Department officials said they were unaware of any such incident. 'Roger Mahony's name hasn't been mentioned around here,' LAPD Lt. Roger Mora said Monday." That would have been nice to know before.
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