CA - SNAP Blasts Mahony Claims of " Scant Information"

By Becky Ianni
Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests
February 27, 2013

http://www.snapnetwork.org/ca_snap_blasts_mahony_claims_of_scant_information

It's mind boggling and insulting that Mahony claims those who criticize him have ""scant information."

Mahony has a three decade track record of ignoring, hiding and enabling pedophile priests. There are thousands of pages of records disclosed through more than 500 child sex abuse and cover up lawsuits against his archdiocese. There is a weeks-long Stockton trial in the 1990s about an admitted serial pedophile, Fr. Oliver O’Grady, who Mahony  supervised. There are almost 300 proven, admitted and credibly accused LA area priests (see BishopAccountabilty.org)

And now there are 12,000 more new pages of documents released weeks ago.

“Scant information?” That’s absurd. The public now knows more about cover ups by Mahony than any other US Catholic official, even more than Cardinal Bernard Law, formerly of Boston and now of Rome.

Today’s LA Times implies that Mahony, now retired, lacks the expensive and powerful public relations team he once enjoyed as head of the LA archdiocese. We doubt that. We strongly suspect that Mahony continues to get top-notch PR advice and assistance. And we are sure that his latest utterances add more pain to the already mountains of pain felt by hundreds of thousands of LA citizens, Catholics and abuse victims.