Man Who Protested at Mass Is Charged

Man Who Protested at Mass Is Charged: "Man Who Protested at Mass Is Charged
By Caitlin Liu, Times Staff Writer

July 23, 2005

Prosecutors filed misdemeanor charges Friday against a man who handcuffed himself to Cardinal Roger M. Mahony's chair during a recent Sunday Mass to protest the archdiocese's handling of the priest sex abuse scandal.

Victim advocates said they were outraged by the charges against James C. Robertson, who contends he was abused.

Robertson, 58, of Mount Washington, has sued the church, alleging he was molested by two Catholic brothers at a Gardena high school during the 1960s. He faces up to 1� years in jail and $2,000 in fines on charges of trespassing and disrupting a religious service.

'It's unbelievable,' said Steven Sanchez, the Los Angeles director of Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests. 'For the last five or six decades, priests have gone and confessed to Cardinal Mahony or his predecessors that they were molesting kids, and all this time, Cardinal Mahony and his predecessors could not find the LAPD's phone number … until [Robertson] makes a silent protest.'"

A Few Books Written about Roman Catholicism

Sex, Priests and Power Anatomy of a Crisis - A.W. Richard Sipes

Lead Us Not Into Temptation: Catholic Priests and the Sexual Abuse of Children - Jason Berry

Vows of Silence: The Abuse of Power in the Papacy of John Paul II - Jason Berry, Gerald Renner

Bill Handle Interview with Former Priest

It's only in America that the filth inside of the dark institution of Roman Catholicism has begun to be exposed.

The Press, media and the courts have made a tremendous difference says former priest, A.W. Richard Sipes. While Sipes was in Rome in 1994 he and asked an offical, "Why is it that Rome doens't acknowledge the problem that we're having? The response, "In Rome the vatican can't figure out why the bishops can't control the press and the courts better."

Click here to learn a little more about what the Roman Catholic institution is really concerned about, and to get a glimpse at how deep this problem really goes.

Keep in mind that when a cardinal is ordained a cardinal by the pope, he kneels before the pope and takes a vow which includes, "I vow to keep secret anything that is confieded to me that if revealed would cause scandal to the church."