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Profiles in courage

June 11th, 2008, 11:40 am · 1 Comment · posted by Steven Greenhut

Bishop of Orange Tod Brown has tried to stop a retired bishop from coming to Orange County to give a book tour about the church sex-abuse scandal. Archbishop Roger Mahony did the same thing. But Geoffrey Robinson is speaking in Costa Mesa today anyway. Good for him. Brown doesn’t get to stop retired bishops from exercising their free-speech rights, even if such speech is embarrassing for the diocese. Here, Gustavo Arellano of OCWeekly has a great post on the Robinson speech. Per the Weekly, Robinson is speaking tonight at 7 p.m. at the Costa Mesa Neighborhood Community Center, 1845 Park Avenue.

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  • Margaret D. Taormina says:
    June 12, 2008 at 12:17 pm

    Thank you, Bishop Robinson, for having the moral courage to stand up to Bishop Brown and the self-canonized Cardinal St. Roger. They are the very persons who should listen to Bishop Robinson’s message. Due to the subterfuge and dishonest tactics of Catholic hierarchy nationwide (particularly those of Mahony and his cronies), our Church has been vilified and, in some cases, our dioceses have been bankrupted to compensate for the uncharitable, immoral and un-Christian behavior of the conscienceless cover-up artists in little red and scarlet beanies. Instead of turning in clerical predators for prosecution, they lied and dissembled and excused the criminals, and then ignored, ridiculed and maligned the damaged victims. And we’re supposed to revere these men as the successors to the apostles? Maybe after they publicly acknowledge what they’ve done for years - and maybe after they’ve seen the inside of a cell - I’ll once again be able to respect their collars.