This is as bad as the Boston coverup.
Worse.
....Roger Mahoney is known to have been the second most powerful bishop in the United States after his now-deceased mentor, the late Cardinal Bernardin of Chicago who headed the USCCB. Between the two men, the appointments of bishops, seminary rectors, and other influential positions in the US Church has been largely controlled by a small and secretive clique. This clique has been dubbed the “lavender mafia,” by liberal Catholic writer and sociologist, Fr. Andrew Greely. A similar clique of powerful church authorities is also known to have existed in Canada since at least the 1960s.
The results of these machinations has been exposed in Michael Rose’s bombshell 2002 book, “Goodbye Good Men.” The book revealed a clerical underworld in which homosexual promiscuity and sexual harassment has been rampant. It revealed that many U.S. seminaries systematically have excluded normal, faithful Catholic men and harassed and demoralized seminarians who supported the Church's teaching on sexuality and the priesthood.
But the outraged lay Catholic groups may have to get in line behind the civil authorities. Recent estimates show that the Diocese of Los Angeles, the largest in the US, will be liable for close to $1.5 billion in clergy abuse suits. In 2002, the Los Angeles District Attorney, Rockard Delgadillo, asked the L.A. police to investigate the Cardinal for possible criminal charges for covering up criminal misconduct by his priests.
Last week, Fr. Thomas Doyle, a priest who worked for the Vatican diplomatic corps, told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that the explosion of abuse revelations will make the Boston scandal pale by comparison. “The epicenter is California,” Doyle said. “One diocese just paid out $36 million, and the Diocese of Orange paid out $110 million. When Los Angeles bursts, it will make Boston look like an altar boys' picnic.”
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