Cardinal Roger Mahony

L.A. Pedophile Priests 'Dumped On' Latino Neighborhoods? Revealing Audio Unearthed

The L.A. Archdiocese not only knew about pedophile priests, but strategized about how to shuffle them around. KCET's "SoCal Connected" at 5:30 tonight will air its exclusive investigation into the scandal that has clouded the legacy of ex-Cardinal Roger Mahony. The station obtained exclusive, 1996 ... More >>

Roger Mahony Heads To Rome For Pope Vote Despite D.A. Priest Abuse Review

If you thought Roger Mahony being stripped of his "duties" was a cop out intended to make you think the church was doing something regarding past priest abuse and the Cardinal's strategy to transfer bad clergy away from the prying eyes of the law, you're probably right. It was a mild, public slap i ... More >>

Christopher Dorner Sent Anderson Cooper A Package With A Note And Bullet-Damaged Coin

Updated at the bottom: Apparently Dorner had messages for many, including Charlie Sheen, Tim Tebow and even disgraced Cardinal Roger Mahony. First posted at 3:04 p.m. Of all the crazy news swirling around the search for alleged murderer Christopher Dorner, including the LAPD's accidental shooting t ... More >>

Roger Mahony Calls Out José Gomez For Previous Silence On Priest Sex Abuse

A day after retired Cardinal and L.A. Archbishop Emeritus Roger Mahony was stripped of his official church duties by his successor, José Gomez, Mahony fired off a letter to the current archbishop defending his actions in the L.A. Archdiocese sex-abuse scandal. Documents released by the church as p ... More >>

Cardinal Roger Mahony Stripped Of Duties For Sex Abuse Cover-Up

We're not sure that a stunning rebuke is, but we're going to guess that this is one. Los Angeles Archbishop José Gomez stated tonight that retired Cardinal and Archbishop Emeritus Roger Mahony would "no longer have any administrative or public duties" for the 4-million-parishioner L.A. Archdiocese ... More >>

Will Cardinal Roger Mahony Face Charges for Sex Abuse Cover Up? SNAP says Yes

On the front page of this morning's Los Angeles Times, the paper notes that several legal experts suspect Cardinal Roger Mahony will not face criminal charges for covering up clergy sex abuse due to the statute of limitations. One advocacy group says those experts have it wrong. "We aren't police, ... More >>

Happy Hour: Pann's Restaurant

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The 42 Most Powerful People in Los Angeles*, According to the Downtown News

AEG CEO Tim Leiweke: He's got downtown Los Angeles in his hands​*Well, technically just in downtown Los Angeles, but that's where all the big players make all their big decisions anyway, right? Just ask a pissed-off Daily News outsider in the Valley. Jon Regardie at the LA Downtown News knows ... More >>

Cardinal Roger Mahony Vilified for Cleansing 'Predator Priests' List of Names from His L.A. Archdiocese Web Site

Cardinal Roger Mahony​With Cardinal Roger Mahony getting ready to retire from the Roman Catholic Los Angeles Archdiocese, his eminence is pulling some strange, ill-conceived moves again, now refusing to maintain an updated list of sexually abusive priests on the archdiocese's web site. The ... More >>

Cardinal Roger Mahony Slams Prop. 8 Decision

Cardinal Roger Mahony​On his blog on Wednesday, Cardinal Roger Mahony, who leads the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, slammed U.S. District Court Judge Vaughn Walker for overturning Proposition 8, the 2008 ballot measure that took away the existing right of gays and lesbians to legally marry in Ca ... More >>

AIDS Activist Richard Zaldivar Puts Archbishop Jose Gomez on Notice

AIDS activist Richard Zaldivar​AIDS activist Richard Zaldivar put Los Angeles Archbishop Jose Gomez on notice the other day -- firmly, yet respectfully demanding that the church play a more vigorous role in preventing the spread of HIV/AIDS in the Latino community. "Roughly 70 percent of our ... More >>

Will Cardinal Mahony Hurt the Cooley Campaign?

For months, Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley, a moderate Republican seeking the GOP nomination for California Attorney General, has been taking hits from his conservative rivals during a hard-hitting primary race (see the current issue of L.A. Weekly).Los Angeles County D.A. Steve C ... More >>

Lawsuit Alleges Cardinal Roger Mahony Covered-Up Molestation Claim

Cardinal Roger Mahony.​A new lawsuit against the Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles alleges that Cardinal Roger Mahony built a "conspiracy of silence" that kept church officials addressing claims that a parishioner who was 12 at the time was being molested regularly. The victim, now 27, stat ... More >>

Cardinal Mahony Blasts Arizona's 'Dreadful' Immigration Law

Is Cardinal Roger Mahony, the archbishop of Los Angeles, getting in a few last swings before he's forced into retirement in the spring of 2011?Cardinal Roger Mahony​Mahony wrote a blistering post on his blog Sunday morning, saying that the "Arizona legislature just passed the country's most retrog ... More >>

Pope Names Texas Latino To Succeed Cardinal Mahony

​Pope Benedict XVI named Archbishop Jose Gomez of San Antonio to succeed Cardinal Roger Mahony as head of the Los Angeles Archdiocese, putting the Texan in line to become the highest-ranking Latino Catholic church leader in the United States. The Los Angeles Archdiocese made the announcement ... More >>

FUR WILL FLY

Mahoney Was Deposed About Alleged Molestation In Archdiocese -- Report

​Cardinal Roger Mahony was deposed for five hours last month in a grand jury investigation of past molestation allegations in the largest Catholic archdiocese in the United States, CNN reports. Mahony was asked how much he knew about abusive priests and whether or not he attempted to thwart l ... More >>

Has Cardinal Roger Mahony's Successor Been Named?

​That's what Thomas Peters, a Washington, D.C.-based blogger, is claiming in a recent post. Peters says that Cardinal Roger Mahony has approved the selection of a coadjutor bishop who would succeed him as Archbishop of Los Angeles when Mahony hits the retirement age of 75 next year:Some of the fac ... More >>

Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

Dem on Dem Payback State Assembly Speaker Karen Bass (D-L.A.) disciplined three members of her party for not voting to put spending limits on the ballot -- part of a key compromise Democrats made to finally pass a budget with Republicans. Stripped of their committee chairmanships were Black Caucus l ... More >>

Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

Clerical Error? U.S. Attorney Tom O'Brien's not talking, but the L.A. Times is reporting that a federal grand jury is investigating Los Angeles Archdiocese Cardinal Roger Mahony for not protecting parishioners from predator priests. Scott Glover and Jack Leonard write that Mahony could be charged wi ... More >>

The Cardinal Is Mystified

KNX Radio reporters Dick Helton and Vicky Moore today interviewed L.A. Archdiocese Cardinal Roger Mahony (audio file) about the L.A. Times reporting he is the target of a federal grand jury investigation. The  Scott Glover-Jack Leonard piece said that the Cardinal faces felony "denial of ... More >>

Queer Town: Cardinal Mahony's Dizzying Post-Prop. 8 Spin

Google alerts can be a wonderful thing, and this morning it delivered Cardinal Roger Mahony's post-Prop. 8 spin a few days after November 4. As the Catholic leader of the Los Angeles Archdiocese, Mahony sent out his official take on the Proposition 8 victory to parishes throughout L.A. County.  ... More >>

Queer Town: Cardinal Mahony's Double-Speak on Prop. 8

Cardinal Roger Mahony, head of the archdiocese of Los Angeles, must be fearing some kind of backlash over his quietly active role in the passage of Proposition 8. This weekend, in The Tidings, an archdiocese newsletter, Mahony and the bishops of L.A. try to console "homosexual Catholics" with a kind ... More >>

Queer Town: Catholic Fall Out Over Proposition 8

While Mormons have been getting the headlines, the Roman Catholic Church has quietly been a major force in the "Yes on 8" campaign to ban same sex marriage in California. Whether or not Proposition 8 is defeated, it seems inevitable that church officials will face some kind of blow back from gay and ... More >>

Queer Town: The Catholic Power Play to Ban Gay Marriage

Cardinal Roger Mahony, the Roman Catholic leader of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, has been keeping somewhat of a low-profile in the battle over same sex marriage in California, but he can't keep his name out of the headlines any longer. One of the most powerful and influential Catholic priests in ... More >>

Mahony's Tainted Legacy

Many priests’ sex crimes will stay secret, but now some victims can rest

the Semantics of Suicide Aid in Dying

God, PR and the right to die in California

The Dog Days of Spring

What to do in Los Angeles this week

The Passion of Lee Baca

Real to Reel

Visions of lives less traveled at Toronto 2006

Critics' Picks

If you see only seven films at this year’s LAFF, make it these

Exile in Godville

Profile of a postmodern heretic

Cardinal Untruths

Mahony’s testimony in sex scandal clashes with earlier statements and reality

Blessed by the Devil

Orange’s dirty deal threatens to brush away the priest scandal

Turn That Smile Into a Brown

How the Orange bishop put the deal together

The Man in Red

Pray tell, what are Steve Cooley’s plans for Cardinal Mahony?

Veil of Secrecy Torched

Judge’s order could bring prosecutors closer to the man in red

Roger’s Nest

So what keeps this cardinal from flying away?

Cardinal Sins

How the Catholic Church, legal community and PR machine are conspiring to protect Roger Mahony

Blessed by the Times

Inside one of the newsroom deals to go soft on the man in the red robe

Behind the Robes

Pondering the secrets Cardinal Mahony might hold about the Catholic sex scandal

Power Giving: Dr. Cardinal on Campus

Murder at the Vanities

The Mission Is on a Mission

And Cardinal Mahony has been its target for years

Dear Losers

How the campaigns should have been run

Letters

Tale of Two Strikes

Why the SEIU caved and the UTU hung tough

Amnesty!

Labor leads the battle to grant legal status to millions of America’s — and L.A.’s — undocumented immigrants

Enter the Janitors

Transforming L.A.

With Blessings

Religion on the (picket) line