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Much as I hate to say it, Mahony has a point here. Keating has been mouthing off too much. He needed to speak softly and carry a big stick.

The problem for Mahony is that the CA legislature passed a horrible law last year. It removed the statute of limitations on all sex abuse cases for a period of one year (2003). So, anyone can come forward and file a lawsuit regardless of how long ago the claimed abuse occured. What Mahony and the other Bishops in CA should have done was gone to Gray DAvis and pressured him to veto the bill or else. But once again, the same chickenshits who wouldn't throw the deviant priests out of the parishes, wouldn't put pressure on Davis to veto this anti-Catholic left wing Demo hit.

As a result, lots of new lawsuits are coming down the track going back 30 or so years. How do you defend against that? How do you separate the real from the imagined? Mahony did not want to gather and supply Keating with certain requested info because that could have been used by plaintiffs attorneys to bring more lawsuits during this year that the statute of limitations has been suspended.

I am all for showing Mahony the door, always have been since he was appointed archbishop. But in this case, I believe Keating screwed up.

Mahony did not want to gather and supply Keating with certain requested info because that could have been used by plaintiffs attorneys to bring more lawsuits during this year that the statute of limitations has been suspended.

Well, as they say in the old country, "toughski sh**ski." Mahoney's got to clean up the mess, and if the mess goes back 30 years, then clean it up!

This is as much about PR as it is about reality. If there are charges hanging over clerical heads, the American Catholics don't give a damn about "statutes of limitations." They want all the offenders out of active ministry, and La Mahoney is preventing that.

You can tell that Keating would like to be able to prosecute Mahoney himself, and I wish he could.

"The Don" of Los Angeles and his "omerta" ought to be brought DOWN!

Keating has been mouthing off too much. He needed to speak softly and carry a big stick.

Agreed. Keating was given a position of serious resonsibility and talked as if he was a....er....tinfoil-hat freeper.