CARDINAL SIN

It’s encouraging to see that the Catholic Church in Los Angeles, led by Cardinal Roger Mahony, has not taken its eye off the ball. Unmoved by the pleas of student families, Mahony decided to close Daniel Murphy High, a local Catholic school that has been turning out well educated, well behaved young men for more than fifty years. The Church has more pressing problems; it can’t seem to find the $175,000 needed to subsidize DMH. Oddly enough, Cardinal Mahony didn’t have any trouble finding $85 million to settle last year’s sexual abuse law suit.

Well, at least the Church won’t have any trouble moving the students from DMH to other schools – they’ve had so much practice moving sexual predator priests from one parish to another, shielding them (and the Church) from the law. Besides, the sale of DMH’s land will bring in $25 million to $40 million, depending on the market, which should help to refill the coffers of the completely tax-exempt Church.

I don’t know about you, but I think Jesus would be proud.

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