{"id":5169,"date":"2006-01-24T23:34:59","date_gmt":"2006-01-24T23:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2006\/01\/you-know-things-are-bad-in-la.html"},"modified":"2006-01-24T23:34:59","modified_gmt":"2006-01-24T23:34:59","slug":"you-know-things-are-bad-in-la","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/01\/you-know-things-are-bad-in-la.html","title":{"rendered":"You know things are bad in LA"},"content":{"rendered":"

When NCR(eporter) fisks you:<\/a><\/p>\n

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In as convoluted a piece of reasoning as we\u2019ve seen in a long time, The Tidings<\/em>, official newspaper of the Los Angeles archdiocese, declares in its Jan. 13 issue that \u201cthe belief that bishops moved child abusers from parish to parish, allowing them to abuse over and over, may well be one of the greatest myths created by the press coverage of the sexual abuse scandal in the church.\u201d A Jan. 13 article points out, \u201cBishops did not generally move abusing clergy around because they were very often not aware of the abuse taking place.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now that\u2019s quite a sentence. Let\u2019s try to pick it apart: Bishops did not transfer priests they did not suspect of molesting children. To which the only logical response is \u2026 huh?<\/p>\n

The more relevant question, of course, is how many priests known or suspected by their bishops of having abused children were whisked away from one parish (lest their activities result in scandal) only to show up running the CYO or training altar servers in another? The answer, and this is no myth, is a whole lot.<\/p>\n

It gets worse.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

It’s too bad, though, that this editorial ends up minimizing the problems in LA, the very problems that made this editorial so risible in the first place. As the writer argues with the editorial, the evidence is presented: Philadelphia, NY, Boston…and oh by the way:<\/p>\n

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And, of course, there\u2019s Los Angeles, where Cardinal Roger Mahony has acknowledged some of his own shortcomings related to the assignment of abusive priests.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Softball, people. Softball. <\/p>\n

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