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The Record
By The Record
January 27, 2013
Retired Cardinal Roger Mahony said again this week how sorry he is.
In a slightly different way, the word sorry can also be used to describe Mahony as a person and as a one-time leader of the nation’s largest Catholic enclave, the Archdiocese of Los Angeles.
Confidential files just made public clearly show that Mahony, for five years bishop of the Stockton diocese before moving to his Los Angeles post in 1985, shielded numerous molester priests.
Much of this has been suspected if not conclusively known for years, but memos written in 1986 and 1987 by Mahony and Monsignor Thomas J. Curry, then the archdiocese’s chief adviser on sex abuse cases, offer the strongest evidence yet of a concerted effort by officials in the nation’s largest Catholic diocese to shield abusers from police.
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