In his testimony, Monsignor Loomis said he told Cardinal Mahony in a memo that he was going to report the new accusations against Mr. Baker to police. Monsignor Loomis said Cardinal Mahony initially supported the idea but later told him through a secretary not to do so until the Vatican approved Mr. Baker’s defrocking.
John Manly, the plaintiff lawyer, said the archdiocese did not report abuse claims to the police until 2002, although Mr. Baker was defrocked in December 2000.
Monsignor Loomis later testified that he had wanted to report the new accusations to parishioners in parishes where Mr. Baker had worked but had been told by Cardinal Mahony not to do so. Monsignor Loomis said that the order upset him deeply and that he would have resigned if his term was not about to end.
“I wanted to follow our regular policy and inform the parishes where Father Baker had been assigned. And I was instructed that we were not going to do that because the lawsuit was still under the process of settlement,” Monsignor Loomis said, according to the transcript.
“I was very upset that we were not going to follow through with our ordinary way of
doing it.”
Why is Mahoney still in his position? Clerical robes? I think an orange jumpsuit would be a better fit.
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Anyone for a nice, big millstone?
Didn't some guy beat the guy up (Mahoney) once?
Mahoney makes my blood boil. Even just seeing what happened to the beautiful St. Vibiana's after he sold it and built that monstrosity to be the L.A. cathedral in its stead... How is it OK to sell a consecrated church and let it become a dance hall with the altar turned into a bar? Oh and what about the time Mahoney called the cops on the pro-lifers protesting a pro-abortion's talk at the cathedral? Or the many times he's processed up the aisle for Mass with the Rainbow Sash gays?
I'd like to know two things: 1) when does he retire? and 2) how did he get made a priest, let alone a cardinal, in the first place?
Melina: Feb 27, 2011
...I'm impatiently waiting...and yes, Fr Erik, I'll take one, lol
I've been saying for years that Mahoney needed to be locked away for life. What a douche!
What's that saying about streets paved with skulls of bishops?
We know, though, that LA's not alone in this. In my former Orange County parish we had a succession of four priests who were later revealed as molestors, one of whom died still with faculties. We were never told of these men, only when the media spotlight was shown on them did we learn of the sordid past.
Must say, however, that we also had some fine, pious priests, too.
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