The politicians

Today's Los Angeles Times news story (click on this post's title) on Cardinal Mahony's settlement includes this passage:

"John Manly, another plaintiffs' attorney, was not so generous, saying city leaders should call for Mahony's removal.

"'How is it that the [C]hurch and cardinal are engaged in misconduct so bad that they are willing to pay basically a billion dollars, with their legal fees, yet not a single public official has called for him to be removed?'"

It is a sad day for our Church when such quotes are in the newspapers.