L.A. Cardinal Badly Beaten By Abuse Foes

Cardinal Roger Mahony, 71, Was Hospitalized Following Attack Near Church Last Summer

(CBS/AP)  Cardinal Roger Mahony was attacked last summer by one or more people apparently angered by the Roman Catholic Church's sexual-abuse scandal, according to priests who say they have heard him discuss the assault.

Mahony, 71, told the priests about the attack during a conference in October, said the Rev. Joseph Shea, pastor of Holy Family Catholic Church in Glendale. The cardinal said it occurred in late July or early August as he was dropping off letters at a mailbox near Our Lady of the Angels Cathedral in downtown Los Angeles, Shea said.

"The comments people made as they kicked him were connected to the sexual abuse lawsuits," he told The Associated Press.

Shea said Mahony was so badly beaten that the cardinal was hospitalized, and that it took him weeks to recover.

Los Angeles Archdiocese spokeswoman Carolina Guevara declined to comment.

"Whatever conversation might have taken place between the priests and their bishop was a private conversation and not meant to be public," Guevara said.

Shea said Mahony did not report the attack to police "because he felt he could offer it up in reparation for the sins of others."

Police have now contacted church officials to ask them about it, said Andrew Smith, assistant commanding officer for the Los Angeles Police Department's Central Bureau.

"If it came to my attention that something happened to Cardinal Mahony, I would have called him and offered my assistance and assured that it was fully investigated ... which is exactly what we're going to do now," Smith said Tuesday.

The Rev. Sal Pilato, principal at Junipero Serra Catholic High School in Gardena, who was also at the conference, told the Los Angeles Daily News that Mahony's account was "shocking because it was an act of violence and it was someone we know and respect."

The church's $660 million settlement with 508 alleged victims was approved July 16.

Mahony came under fire from victims and attorneys who said he moved sexually abusive priests to different parishes.

"Of course we feel sorry for Cardinal Mahony," David Clohessy, the national director of Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, told Claudia Pesciutta of CBS radio station KNX.

But Clohessy said the Church appears to have a double standard.

"What clergy sex abuse victims say is reported as allegations, and what Cardinal Mahony says is reported as fact," Clohessy said.

Church officials have said Mahony tried to reach out to victims, meeting with many of them and their families.

[dmhphils]

because you right wingers seem to have NO problem at all foisting your BS fairy tailes on the rest of *US*,
Posted by newster1 at 12:37 AM : Dec 06, 2007
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You athiests are a real work.......You don''t seem to recognize that you are doing the same thing you''re accusing Christians of doing to you. You seem oblivious of the fact that you are forcing your athieistic dogma on everyonelse around you. If you really believe that God doesn''t exist, why does it upset you so much that others do?

What upsets you the most about Christians is that they are confident in what they believe, but the athiest is confident about one thing, and that is that they believe nothing, and that is what makes them so insecure. Insecure people will lash out at what threatens them because they are grasping for something to believe in. That is because human beings were created to worship God, but the athiest worships himself and will always feel empty inside because they deny God''s right to them. He created you for His pleasure, not your pleasure.

It''s complicated.

[taylpatr]

I believe in Jesus too, but I don''t think he would recognize the twisted, warped version of his gospel that man has made of it. Religion is something made up by man, no matter how they choose to paint it. Nothing about the actions of any of these people even resembles the message that Jesus tried to leave us.The right wing christian fanatics are resembling the Taliban more and more every day. Bush and company are the modern Romans, Bush being closest to Nero, who played his fiddle while Rome burned. However, since W. can''t carry a tune in a bucket, I wonder what he''s fiddleing with? Hmm...maybe he''s got a cardinal in the closet

[nothappyatall]

Mahoney has always been a pervert himself. Not only has he covered up the abuses of the Ga-ye perverts in his keeping,

Posted by Pelostilaho"


They arent Ga-ye people who molest childres are called *pedophiles*, most pedophiles are HETERO, look up the difference!

Mahoney by the way was behind the arch disease of LA expending over $350 MILLION on that brand new cathedral to hold ceremonies in, what an outlandish scam, they didnt hire an American architect even- they hired a fancy award winning architect Rafael Maneo from SPAIN!
Nothing is too good for the CHURCH, while outside people live in cardboard boxes because they are homeless.

[nothappyatall]

"If you TRULY dont believe, then why would it matter to you ? So, why was it you were telling me Christ is a fairy tail ?

Posted by speakinup"

I dont and it DOES matter to me, because you right wingers seem to have NO problem at all foisting your BS fairy tailes on the rest of *US*, on our money with "in god we trust" plastered on it, in the pledge, with laws and evver the way you VOTED in a nut case named BUSH solely because of his ANTI abortion and ANTI g@y agends. When you keep YOUR beliefs to yourself in private I have no problem there, its when you foist this bibull krap and this "god bless" krap on ME that I have the problem.
Its when politicians the other night trot out the bibull and start talking about its content as though they were FACTS and asking if the other candidates believe EVERY word in it. How about trot out the US Constitution and ask if the other candidates believe every word in THAT document- skrew what they believe in a stupid old book of fables written and cobbled together by MEN

[soldat44]

By the way - the news they don''''t want you to hear, if this is a fake story, or a timed release of a real story:

They just finished settling with a woman who when she was a girl, was passed around between 7 priests for s-e-x. When they ended up fathering a child on her, she was sent out of the country, pressured to give up the child, and rejected by the church, painted as a liar (a DNA paternity test proves which of the priests was the actual father). The child is now 25, and they''''ve finally settled with her, for a pittance, compared to what they did to her then, and what they''''ve done to her all these years they''''ve painted her as a liar.

I don''''t know if this is a planted story - but quite the coincidence it comes out the same day as this settlement.

Posted by SusanHelit at 07:32 PM : Dec 05, 2007

BS

[soldat44]

I believe in God, His only son Jesus Christ and the Holy Ghost. That I want to make clear.

If you don''''t want to believe, that is your choice. If you want to think of it as a fairy tail, that''''s your choice, too.

Those that believe, do so because they have faith. Faith is accepting the truth without ''''proof''''. This is not something destroyed from without, and is best recognized from within. Those that don''''t believe can''''t sustain faith.

Your thinking that you can convince me it is a fairy tail is derisory. So let%u2019s not feign that you have my interests at mind.

Laugh at me, mock me, tell me how much you don''''t believe, or how stupid you think I am for believing, if you wish. Sure, I feel badly for you, because you don%u2019t know the joy I have, but I don''''t care that you do these things.

See, Christ is willing to forgive all sins, as long as you believe. If you do believe, for the most part you don%u2019t want to do those things you need to be forgiven for.

If you TRULY don''''t believe, then why would it matter to you ? But, misery does love company doesn''''t it ? So, why was it you were telling me Christ is a fairy tail ?

Posted by speakinup at 08:03 PM : Dec 05, 2007

Nice post! Thanks and God Bless.

[beehive21-2009]

These suckers should all be hung.

[mrmazerati]

Show me the world''s biggest atheist, and I''ll show you a religious leader. Why? Because he''s the man behind the curtain, and is perfectly aware that there is no great and powerful Oz unless he creates him. I do not doubt that they are very good men. They are just very poor wizards. Fairy tales are for kids. Think for yourselves, folks.

[speakinup]

superchez1 - I believe in God, His only son Jesus Christ and the Holy Ghost. That I want to make clear.

If you don''t want to believe, that is your choice. If you want to think of it as a fairy tail, that''s your choice, too.

Those that believe, do so because they have faith. Faith is accepting the truth without ''proof''. This is not something destroyed from without, and is best recognized from within. Those that don''t believe can''t sustain faith.

Your thinking that you can convince me it is a fairy tail is derisory. So let%u2019s not feign that you have my interests at mind.

Laugh at me, mock me, tell me how much you don''t believe, or how stupid you think I am for believing, if you wish. Sure, I feel badly for you, because you don%u2019t know the joy I have, but I don''t care that you do these things.

See, Christ is willing to forgive all sins, as long as you believe. If you do believe, for the most part you don%u2019t want to do those things you need to be forgiven for.

If you TRULY don''t believe, then why would it matter to you ? But, misery does love company doesn''t it ? So, why was it you were telling me Christ is a fairy tail ?

[hungry1968]

Posted by userverify at 07:48 PM : Dec 05, 2007



Userverify?

What''s wrong did "nameverify" and "verifyname" get banned?


HAHAHA!!!