I apologized for those mistakes, and committed myself to make certain that the Archdiocese was safe for everyone,” he wrote. “I have stated time and time again that I made mistakes, especially in the mid-1980s. “Not once over these past years did you ever raise any questions about our policies, practices, or procedures in dealing with the problem of clergy sexual misconduct involving minors,” Mahony wrote. The archdiocese became “second to none” in such protection, he wrote.

When Gomez began to take over the archdiocese in May 2010, “you began to become aware of all that had been done here over the years for the protection of children and youth,” Mahony wrote to Gomez. The letter provides “the history and context of what we have been through since the mid-1980s,” Mahony said.

No member of the Los Angeles church hierarchy has been charged with any wrongdoing, she said.Īlso on Friday, Mahony posted on his personal blog a response he sent to Gomez. Meanwhile, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office is reviewing the newly released set of documents, spokeswoman Jane Robison said Friday. I find these files to be brutal and painful reading,” he said. “But that does not make them less serious. The documents were released on the archdiocese’s website. “The cases span decades,” Gomez said in a statement Thursday. There were 192 priests and bishops named in litigation, the archdiocese said. Gomez of the Los Angeles Archdiocese disciplined his predecessor, the now retired Cardinal Roger Mahony, after a California judge forced the archdiocese to release about 12,000 pages of church documents revealing how it handled allegations of abuse. In what activists describe as unprecedented, the Catholic archbishop in Los Angeles has relieved a retired cardinal of his public and administrative duties for his mishandling of “painful and brutal” allegations of sexual abuse by priests.Īrchbishop Jose H. Los Angeles prosecutor is reviewing newly released files on priest abuseĭiscipline against archbishop is unprecedented but 'meaningless,' activist says 'Not once over these past years did you ever raise any questions,' retired Mahony tells successorĭespite discipline, retired archbishop is 'in good standing' and can vote for pope

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