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Christianity

  • Blogs

    May 6, 2012

    The OCeeker: Christ Reformed Church and a Riddlebarger With Extra Cheesus

    There's something to be said for churches that tell you what they're all about in their name. In recent years, the hipper churches have gone for cool-sounding names that one could read any meaning into. Indeed, there are no shortages of "Journeys", "Wells" and fellowships with numbers in their ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 10, 2012

    John Manly Defeats Another Pedophile Priest in a California Courtroom

    John C. Manly--arguably California's best dirty priest hunter--scored another courthouse victory last week in Stockton when a jury sided with the Newport Beach lawyer's civil case against a priest who raped an alter boy 20 years ago.A Modesto Bee article describes how some community members are upse ... More >>

  • Film

    April 5, 2012

    Institutional Failure In 'We Have a Pope'

    Nanni Moretti releases a toothless satire of the Catholic Church

  • Blogs

    January 4, 2012

    Cirilo Flores, Ineffective Diocese of Orange Auxiliary Bishop, to Leave for Diocese of San Diego

    ​The era of Cirilo Flores--just named coadjutor bishop of the Diocese of San Diego--is ending the same way it started: with people trying to remember who he was.Flores joined the Diocese of Orange in 2009 as an auxiliary bishop, really just filling the token Mexi bishop seat for head pedo-protecto ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 9, 2011

    Will Saddleback Church Snap Up Albert Pujols, Christianity's Biggest Free Agent?

    Warren and Pujols: A Murderer's Row for Christ?​Going off what Coker posted yesterday about Christians looking toward new Anaheim Angels slugger Albert Pujols to bring a bunch of Papist Mexis in la naranja toward Christ, the question then becomes: what local church will Pujols sign up for as his n ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 9, 2011

    Catholic League Bashes Gustavo for Pedo-Priest Articles; Gustavo Responds!

    Donohue: Lace-curtain Irish​The Catholic League always struck me as one of those antiquated organizations--like the Iowa clubs of Southern California that held those cool picnics in Long Beach decades ago, or the Grand Army of the Republic--that might've had a place and cause at some point in o ... More >>

  • Columns

    July 28, 2011

    Is Being a Robber and an Illegal Immigrant the Same Crime?

    [¡Ask a Mexican!] And why are there Mennonites in Mexico?

  • Film

    July 14, 2011

    'Tabloid' Offers the Truth According to Miss Wyoming

    Cloned dogs! Mormon sex! Scandal and subjective reality in Errol Morris' film

  • Blogs

    June 9, 2011

    George Saieg, Anaheim Muslim-to-Christian Evangelist, Wins Free Speech Ruling

    ​Somehow we missed this one from a couple weeks ago, but George Saieg recently won an appellate court decision regarding his free-speech rights and mistreatment by the city of Dearborn, Michigan, which had barred the Anaheim evangelist from passing out pamphlets urging Muslims to convert to Christ ... More >>

  • Culture

    January 20, 2011

    'Cult of the Ruin' Has a Past Tense and Present Purpose

    UC Irvine's University Art Gallery's latest exhibit re-examines time gone by

  • Blogs

    December 15, 2010

    Orange Bishop Tod D. Brown Gets Company Formed for His Proposed Cathedral Suspended by Franchise Tax Board

    ​Diocese of Orange Bishop Tod D. Brown must be loving his holidays. Despite getting exposed as a pedophile apologist again and again, he's still the head of the second-largest Catholic diocese west of the Mississippi. Despite the building downturn, he's still pushing forward with plans to build hi ... More >>

  • Columns

    August 19, 2010

    Latter-Day Mexicans

    [¡Ask a Mexican!] South of the border Mormons redux

  • Blogs

    August 5, 2010

    Listen to the Sister

    ​When it comes to making money, Catholics are pretty damn good. Sure that's a gross generalization, but one stroll through Vatican City or a look at the $189 million Los Angeles Cathedral shows that the rock that Jesus built his church upon is on quite solid financial footing. So it's no surp ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 31, 2010

    Why isn't Orange Bishop Tod D. Brown Fighting Anti-Immigrant Loons?

    ​One of the few positive transformations in the Roman Catholic Church in the United States over the last half-century has been its increasingly Aztlanista tendencies. This trajectory was helped along in the late 1960s and 1970s by no less a priest than Roger Mahony, now cardinal of the Los Angeles ... More >>

  • Columns

    July 22, 2010

    More Mormon Mexicans?!?

    [¡Ask a Mexican!] Also, why do the people of Jalisco look down on other Mexicans?

  • Blogs

    April 22, 2010

    The Real 40-Year-Old Virgin Abides

    Photo by Star ForemanDid Steve Carell blaze the trail for Anthony J. Tarquinto?​Aliso Viejo's Anthony J. Tarquinto, who is profiled in today's News section, may have The 40 Year Old Virgin star Steve Carell to thank for making it okay to be a real-life, 40-year-old virgin.

  • Blogs

    March 22, 2010

    OC Register Editor, Publisher Weakly Capitulate to Pedo-Priest Apologists

    Brusic: Would rather apologize to pedo-apologists than skewer them...​I've been away for a bit, so am late to this story: last week, Orange County Register reporter Teri Sforza did an innocuous-enough post titled, "Think you can spot the sex offender in the crowd?" that dealt with some California ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 15, 2010

    Mormon Fight In Irvine this Weekend!

    No, Mitt Romney and David Archuleta aren't going to be brawling in the Great Park. Even better: This Saturday will bring two prominent local members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to debate how much government and religion should mingle. tracy out west / Flickr / Creative Commons ... More >>

  • News

    March 19, 2009

    A Priest the Diocese of Orange Admits Faced an Abuse Accusation Is Still in Ministry In Spain

    No, Mitt Romney and David Archuleta aren't going to be brawling in the Great Park. Even better: This Saturday will bring two prominent local members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to debate how much government and religion should mingle. tracy out west / Flickr / Creative Commons ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 12, 2009

    Did Denis Lyons' Attorney Inadvertently Admit His Client is a Pedophile?

    Yesterday, we wrote about how the Diocese of Orange is using a laughable argument to try and keep secret personnel files on pedo-priest Denis Lyons in a recent civil suit. Unsurprisingly, Lyons' lawyers also filed a brief for the same purpose using the same tactic of Orange Bishop Tod D. Brown: that ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 11, 2009

    Bishop Brown Breaks His Covenant with the Faithful for the Trillionth Time

    IUpdated, with new info on the bottom...Both the Los Angeles Times and Orange County Register revealed today that Jon Kirrer of Fountain Valley filed a lawsuit against the Catholic Diocese of Orange and its pedo-priest Denis Lyons alleging sexual abuse during the mid-1990s, and isn't it refreshing t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 4, 2009

    The Evilest Man in Southern California: Tod Tamberg, LA Archdiocese Spokeshole

    I've rarely covered the sex abuse scandal up the 5 Freeway at the Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles, because--hello!--LA is LA and Orange County is it. But a scummy incident that happened last Wednesday warrants the attention of all naranjeros and good Catholics.Then, sex-abuse survivors held a pr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 19, 2009

    Where do OC's Pedo-Priest Apologists Love To Eat?

    From a trusted source:"So I'm eating at [fancy restaurant] recently and am about to leave, when who do I see but John Urell! He's waiting outside with a bunch of priests. They're dressed super-fancy in suits, laughing, and seemingly ready to have a good time."I realize a lot of you foodies don't bot ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 13, 2009

    Rick Warren Offers to Save Homo-Hating St. James Anglican Church, But Where's Howard F. Ahmanson, Jr?

    Rick Warren has finally crossed the Rubicon of homo-hating with his invitation to St. James Anglican Church in Newport Beach to set up camp at Saddleback Church because the California State Supreme Court recently ruled they can't stay on their Balboa Peninsula property. A quick primer: St. James spl ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 15, 2008

    Bishop John Steinbock is a Disgusting, Pedo-Priest-Loving, Hypocritical Sinner

    Greatest-Religion-Reporter-Ever William Lobdell alerted me to the story of Diocese of Fresno Bishop John Steinbock removing Father Geoffrey Farrow from the diocese and his salary and health benefits for speaking out against the gay-marriage-banning Proposition 8 and coming out as a homosexual. That ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 1, 2008

    Bishop Brown Invites Pedo-Apologist Bishop to Deliver Red Mass Homily

    In a county where ostentatious pomp and circumstance is the rule of the day, few events are more despicable than the Red Mass, an annual event held by the Diocese of Orange where Bishop Tod D. Brown virtually guarantees no prosecution for his pedo-priests by honoring the entire legal system--judges, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 21, 2008

    Orange Diocese Dimwit of the Month...

    **Updated, with new material at the bottom... ...Is actually the dimwit from last month: Father Christopher Heath of St. Edward the Confessor in Dana Point. To mark Pope Benedict XVI's meeting with the sex-abuse victims of his priests, Heath wrote a post on his blog where he made this off-hand but ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 12, 2008

    Pedophile Protector Apologist of the Day...

    ...Is Patrick Redmond of Newport Beach! Today, the Orange County Register prints his letter blasting star columnist Frank Mickadeit for his supposed "umbilical fascination" with famed Catholic Church sex-abuse victim's attorney John Manly. The trigger for such a clever twist of words? A March 7 colu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 9, 2008

    At Your Service: Main Place Christian Fellowship Church Prayer Booth

    Welcome to the first installment of my weekly church review, where I'll visit houses of worship—Christian, Muslim, Baha'i, even Scientologist—and examine what folks of faith need to know: theology, environment, parking, and the all-important sermon. Suggestions for churches to review in the comm ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 30, 2007

    Bishop McFarland to Priests: Stop Touching Boys!

    Just got off the phone with Malcolm Smith, a former priest in the Orange diocese who served at St. Kilian Church in Mission Viejo during the mid-1990s. Smith was there when Patrick Ziemann--then the Bishop of Santa Rosa, formerly a Mater Dei instructor--allegedly abused a boy during confession at a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 8, 2007

    Bishop Brown Still Doesn't Get It

    Pick up this newspaper this Thursday, when this reporter will have a more in-depth take on the Orange diocese's settling four more sex-abuse cases for about $7 million. In the meanwhile, allow your humble servant to rail about the latest foot-in-mouth case of Orange Bishop Tod D. Brown. Today, Asso ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 4, 2007

    What the Hell is Bishop Brown Doing in St. Augustine?

    As the Catholic Diocese of Orange heads toward a potentially blockbuster civil trial, as diocesan PR flacks spin furiously, Bishop Tod D. Brown is in...St. Augustine, Florida?! Yep. His Excellency is there as part of the Joint Committee of Orthodox and Catholic Bishops. Now, we don't hold anything ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 1, 2007

    OC Blog Spins for Urell (And Spins and Spins...)

    Bear with us, gentle readers--this is a long post... Though the Weekly anointed Orange Juice as the county's best blog, even the Juicers would admit that the king of the county blogosphere is OC Blog, started and administrated by Jubal, the nom de plume of political consultant and longtime local Re ... More >>

  • Features

    September 27, 2007

    Bad Moves

    The bishop broke his covenant. The former chancellor broke down. But the truth about the Diocese of Orange's sex-abuse scandal is emerging in court anyway

  • Blogs

    June 30, 2007

    LAFF 2007: Westside Ain't the Best Side

    Friday at the fest was a little bit different -- all the interesting-looking films were playing at the Landmark Westside, that new fancy art-house 12-plex at the Westside Pavilion. Parking there is free, unlike in Westwood, where everything else is happening. The trade-off you make is that beer is n ... More >>

  • News

    April 26, 2007

    Nailed?

    Bishop Tod Brown and his undisclosed molestation accusation

  • News

    March 1, 2007

    Godsmack

    Orange County authors try to bring unity to people of different religious faiths. For this they will face the wrath of believers. Again.

  • Blogs

    January 5, 2007

    Pilfering Peter's Pence

    If you stuffed a few bucks into Salvation Army kettles this past holiday season, there's good news-- it's very likely your dollars (or coins, if you're a cheap bastard) found their way to wherever General Booth's soldiers intended they should go. The New York Times reports: The Salvation Army is wid ... More >>

  • Film

    November 9, 2006

    The Wretched of the Wretches

    Will OC see the ultimate Catholic pedophile bare all in Deliver Us From Evil?

  • Film

    November 2, 2006

    Devils in Disguise

    A documentary portrait of a pedophile preist and his pious protectors

  • News

    June 1, 2006

    Judas: So Hot Right Now!

    After a 2,000-year career as Christianitys bad boy, Judas Iscariot is getting his 15 minutes of fame and freaking out the faithful

  • News

    December 15, 2005

    King of the County Pedophiles

    The life, death and final escape of Eleuterio Ramos

  • News

    December 15, 2005

    King of the County Pedophiles

    The life, death and final escape of Eleuterio Ramos

  • Unknown

    May 12, 2005

    Take the Bishop Michael Driscoll Pedo-Quiz!

    The life, death and final escape of Eleuterio Ramos

  • News

    March 31, 2005

    Deal of the Century

    The LA-OC Pedophile Priest Swap

  • Unknown

    April 8, 2004

    Armageddon is for Losers

    Lets hang around and raise tomatoes instead

  • News

    April 3, 2003

    A Case of Morder

    Death-metal vocalist faces life for an alleged Christian hate crime

  • Film

    February 6, 2003

    Secrets and Lies

    The cleric who turned a blind eye

  • Columns

    February 3, 2000

    Coming Clean

    The cleric who turned a blind eye

  • Culture

    March 5, 1998

    Thou Shalt Be Rich

    Selling your soul-at a profit-with TBN's divine guidance

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