Cardinal Mahony is an embarrassment to the Catholic Church

Well, I'm sure many readers of this blog already know that Cardinal Mahony is full of you know what. Heck, I just recenty proved fully that he is full of you know what.

Nevertheless, Barbara Simpson gives us more reason to believe why Cardinal Mahony is full of you know what and is nothing less than an embarrassment to the Catholic Church.

Quite frankly, it's because of people like Mahony is why I largely ignore anything said by the clergy nowadays. Seriously, almost anything of worth concerning the Catholic Church and the faith is now largely spoken by laymen. The clergy (with the exceptions of more traditional-minded priests) by and large wishes to live in its own little world that's completely isolated from reality. This is largely because of two reasons: 1) secularism has pretty much restricted the clergy to the margins of social life and 2) because of that the clergy is desperate to appear "relevant" to the modern world.

Yet as Pat Buchanan noted, by making themselves "relevant" they really make themselves "irrelevant".