[Catholic Caucus] The Rehabilitation of Disgraced Cardinal Roger Mahony

The American Spectator ^ | September 3, 2022 | George Neumayr

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[Catholic Caucus] The Rehabilitation of Disgraced Cardinal Roger Mahony

San Diego Bishop Robert McElroy was elevated to cardinal last weekend, a significant snub to Jose Gomez, the archbishop of Los Angeles, a much larger see than San Diego whose head typically receives a red hat. As if Gomez hadn’t been humiliated enough, McElroy chose Cardinal Roger Mahony, the disgraced former archbishop of Los Angeles, as one of the concelebrants at his first mass as cardinal. During the previous pontificate, Gomez had tried to sideline Mahony for his monstrous role in protecting molesting priests. Gomez said that Mahony would “no longer have any administrative or public duties.” But Mahony, whose chutzpah equals that of the late Rembert Weakland, ignored this directive and waited for the arrival of Pope Francis.

That McElroy thought nothing of including Mahony at his first mass as cardinal speaks to the in-your-face liberal culture at the top of the Church. McElroy has been criticized for his own lax handling of abuse cases and his stonewalling of the psychotherapist Richard Sipe, a whistleblower against the rapist Theodore McCarrick. But McElroy still doesn’t feel any need to distance himself from Mahony. McElroy knows that he will pay no price for such associations under this pontificate. If anything, such dubious associations propelled his rise in the Church.

Anticipating his rehabilitation under Pope Francis, Mahony burbled at the beginning of his pontificate, “So long, Papal ermine and fancy lace! Welcome, simple cassock, and hopefully, ordinary black shoes! St. Francis must be overjoyed! Mass with Pope Francis: moving from HIGH Church to LOW and humble Church! What a blessing that we are encountering Jesus without trappings!”

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But the bashful Gomez was no match for Mahony, especially after the election of Pope Francis. Mahony quickly leveraged his friendship with ascendant liberals under Pope Francis, such as Robert McElroy, to regain a voice in the Church.

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That Mahony is enjoying a second act while Gomez disappears into the shadows reveals much about the Church’s direction. The most powerful prelates in America, from McElroy to Cardinal Blase Cupich in Chicago to Cardinal Joseph Tobin in Newark, are assisting Mahony in this con job, which exposes their “reform agenda” as rotten and hollow.

[Jeff Chandler]

I am so sick of the faggots infecting the Church hierarchy. I will leave it at.

[If You Want It Fixed - Fix It]

These cardinals obviously don’t believe in God.