Judge Says Lawyers Can Question Cardinal (US's Largest Archdiocese)

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SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 3 - A California judge ruled on Friday that Cardinal Roger Mahoney of Los Angeles, the leader of the nation's largest Roman Catholic archdiocese, can be questioned by lawyers in a clergy sexual abuse case under way in Oakland.

The decision, one of several issued by Judge Ronald Sabraw of Alameda County Superior Court, will allow the lawyers to question Cardinal Mahoney directly about general church practices, the people who suffered abuse and the priests involved, some of whom served with the cardinal in Fresno and Stockton long ago.

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1. Pity they didn't let the cops exercise that same constitutional

right to interrogate the bastards 40, 50 years ago when the first allegations from children were dismissed as sinful fantasy and the Catholic Church's heirarchy was deemed to have immunity from federal law enforcement procedures.