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4. Laurie Goodstein, “Vatican Declined to Defrock U.S. Priest Who Abused Boys,” New York Times, March 24, 2010.

5. Kim Ode, “On a Crusade,” Minneapolis Star Tribune, April 26, 2010.

6. David Schimke, “True Believer,” St. Paul City Pages, April 16, 2003.

7. Tim Townsend, “Abuse Scandal Puts Victims’ Group Back in the Spotlight,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, April 20, 2010.

8. Jason Berry, Lead Us Not into Temptation (New York, 1992), pp. 281–86, 371–73.

9. Daniel J. Wakin, “Catholic Priest Who Aids Church Sexual Abuse Victims Loses His Job,” New York Times, April 29, 2004.

10. Mike Davis, City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles (New York, 2006), p. 360.

11. Ibid., pp. 359–65. On Western Sequoia, see Ron Russell, “Taj Mahony,” New Times (L.A.), December 20, 2001.

12. Msgr. Francis J. Weber, Cathedral: Our Lady of the Angels (Mission Hills, CA, 2004), p. 69.

13. Steve Lopez, “The Amazing ‘Teflon Cardinal,’ ” Los Angeles Times, April 7, 2002.

14. The testimony cited is drawn from Lopez, “The Amazing ‘Teflon Cardinal,’ ” unless noted otherwise.

15. Testimony cited in Jason Berry, “Church in Crisis: Mahony, in Legal Battle, Insists Church Has Right to Secrecy,” National Catholic Reporter, March 18, 2005.

16. Margaret Leslie Davis, Dark Side of Fortune: Triumph and Scandal in the Life of Oil Tycoon Edward L. Doheny (Berkeley, CA, 1998), p. 277.

17. Msgr. Francis J. Weber, A History of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles and Its Precursor Jurisdictions in Southern California, 1840–2007 (Los Angeles, 2007), pp. 9–11.

18. George J. Sánchez, Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture, and Identity in Chicano, Los Angeles, 1900–1945 (New York, 1993), p. 71.

19. Davis, City of Quartz, pp. 330–31.

20. Charles R. Morris, American Catholic: The Saints and Sinners Who Built America’s Most Powerful Church (New York, 1997), p. 258.

21. Msgr. Francis J. Weber, His Eminence of Los Angeles: James Francis Cardinal McIntyre, vol. 1 (Mission Hills, CA, 1977), p. 237.

22. Msgr. Francis J. Weber, “Historical Reflections,” in Days of Change, Years of Challenge: The Homilies, Addresses, and Talks of Cardinal Timothy Manning, ed. Francis Weber (Los Angeles, 1987), p. 107.

23. Kevin Starr, Coast of Dreams: California on the Edge, 1990–2003 (New York, 2006), p. 17.

24. On Hawkes’s financial control, see Thomas J. Reese, Archbishop: Inside the Power Structure of the Roman Catholic Church (San Francisco, 1989), p. 190. How priests feared Hawkes is from a background interview, Los Angeles, November 2009. On Hawkes’s probate, see Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, P702033, filed October 17, 1985.

25. Los Angeles Archdiocese, Report to the People of God, February 17, 2004, lists Hawkes with two accusers. Demarco’s client makes a third. Terence McKiernan of BishopAccountability.org explains further: “The archdiocese no longer has the list on their site, though they pretend to—they deleted the list, and only post the introductory essay now, without saying that the Report is bowdlerized. See our brief explanation of this situation with links at: http://www.bishopaccountability.org/AtAGlance/lists.htm.”

26. Weber, Cathedral, p. 102.

27. Ibid., pp. 105–6.

28. Joseph Claude Harris, “Paying for Parish Programs: Archdiocese of Los Angeles,” unpublished, July 2001.

29. Manny Vega, conversations with the author, Los Angeles and Pasadena, June 2005; screening of videotape of Vega’s life prepared for settlement negotiations under the auspices of attorney Ray Boucher. Tom Kisken, “Officer Battles Personal Crime,” Ventura County Star, April 27, 2003, is an exceptional report.

30. Berry, “Mahony in Legal Battle.” The quotation in question was from an earlier Los Angeles Times article. The legal narrative in this part of the chapter is drawn from the National Catholic Reporter coverage.

31. Jeffrey Anderson, “Behind the Robes,” L.A. Weekly, March 18, 2003. He is no relation to the attorney.

32. Glenn F. Bunting, Ralph Frammolino, and Richard Winton, “Archdiocese for Years Kept Accusations

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