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Cover-up: Crisis in the Catholic Church
Los Angeles Times report shows how Cardinal Roger Mahony approved a then-secret $1.3 million payment to two men who claimed that Father Michael Baker sexually abused them over a period of 15 years. "The Times identified and interviewed nine victims who said that Baker had molested them as children. Baker told The Times that he had informed Mahony in 1986 about his sexual abuse of young boys. Mahony initially denied participating in any such meeting, then acknowledged the Baker meeting and apologized for his handling of the case."
Tags: molestation; Catholic Church; sexual abuse; children; kids; child; priest; Michael Baker; Cardinal Roger Mahony; Jesuits
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Legacy of Shame
A seven-part series exposing Cardinal Roger M. Mahony's culpability in covering up for sex-abusing priests on a level that may surpass Boston's former cardinal, Bernard Law. It examines Mahony's 17-year record as archbishop of LA.
Tags: Cardinal Roger M. Mahony; sexual abuse; Catholic Church; archbishop of LA; sex-abusing priests
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Unholy Alliance
A New Times investigation reveals "how the nation's largest Roman Catholic archdiocese, at the instigation of Cardinal Roger Mahony, entered into a secret deal with one of the nation's largest funeral service company, Stewart Enterprises, Inc." The funeral chain and the Catholic church agreed to build for-profit mortuaries on the ground of church cemeteries. As a result, unsuspecting Catholics have been steered by parish priests -- pressured by the archdiocese -- to use the Stewart mortuaries at prices double than those of identical services provided by independent mortuaries. "It is an arrangement that appears tied to the cardinal's ambitious push to build a spanking new $193 million cathedral in Los Angeles," the Times reports.
Tags: religion; California Cemetery and Funeral Bureau; consumer affairs; Montebello; donations