Christianity

"Monsignor Meth" Kevin Wallin Expected to Plead Guilty in Case That Snared OC Couple

A suspended, cross-dressing Roman Catholic priest nicknamed "Monsignor Meth" because of his role in a drug operation whose suppliers were alleged to be two South County residents is expected to plead guilty to charges against him Tuesday. Federal court papers in Waterbury, Conn., indicate Kevin Wall ... More >>

Tod Brown's Perpetual Pedo-Priest Parade!

Documents released by the Archdiocese of Los Angeles shows again how the Orange diocese is still not telling the full story of its sex-abuse scandal

LA Archdiocese Discloses Another OC Pedo-Priest In its Latest Document Dump

Last month, the Archdiocese of Los Angeles released thousands of pages of documents pertaining to its long, proud history of protecting pedophile priests. Yesterday, Terence McKiernan of BishopAccountability.org, which archives documents pertaining to the Catholic Church's sex-abuse scandal going ba ... More >>

The LA Archdiocese Released Their Sex-Abuse Files And Smacked Down Previous Pedo-Protectors; When Will the Diocese of Orange?

Everyone and their mother is freaking out about all the revelations coming out of the sex-abuse scandal in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles after they released a bunch of once-secret personnel files on their pedo-priests. To that, we say "YAWN." There is very little new in those documents not already ... More >>

LA Archdiocese Document Dump Shows Anew How Former Orange Bishop Tod D. Brown Was a Pedo-Priest Protector Extraordinaire

Yesterday, the Archdiocese of Los Angeles released thousands of pages of personnel files that confirms what those of us who have followed the Catholic Church sex-abuse scandal have known for a good decade but which the vast majority of Catholics refuse to acknowledge: that their leaders, for forever ... More >>

Are Mexicans Having Fewer Babies?

[¡Ask a Mexican!] And what's the true story of the 1920s Cristeros revolt in Mexico?

Disrobed Holy Man

[Ask Exene] I think my mom is having an affair with a priest. What should I do?

'Mea Maxima Culpa': Those Who Prey

Alex Gibney rages against the Catholic Church's cover-up of abuse

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 >>

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 >>

Institutional Failure In 'We Have a Pope'

Nanni Moretti releases a toothless satire of the Catholic Church

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 >>

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

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

'Tabloid' Offers the Truth According to Miss Wyoming

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

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 >>

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 >>

Latter-Day Mexicans

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

More Mormon Mexicans?!?

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

Orange Bishop Tod Brown Wrote Letter of Recommendation for Pedo-Priest While Head of Boise Diocese

​In 1990, then-Diocese of Boise, currently Diocese of Orange Bishop Tod D. Brown drafted a letter of recommendation on behalf of Father Ruben Idalio Garcia so that the former Boise priest could officially join the Archdiocese of Tijuana. "I am happy to recommend Fr Garcia for service" in Tijuana ... More >>

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 >>

What Do Pope, Larry Flynt, Mission Viejo Shoppers Have in Common?

Media reports that as many as 16 actors and actresses in the adult entertainment industry recently tested positive for HIV have prompted new calls for legislation requiring condom use in all porn videos shot in California. Opponents to condom use include the multi-billion dollar adult entertainment ... More >>

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

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 >>

Pope Benedict XVI to Give Papal Recognition to a Bunch of Orange Diocese Pedo-Apologists

Who says Diocese of Orange Bishop Tod D. Brown doesn't take care of his lackeys? Actually, no one: anyone with half a brain (me, me!) knows this. Anyways, Brown sent out a letter to his priests two days ago announcing that "our Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI has honored papal recognition, to those li ... More >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Fun With Nuns

Sister’s Christmas Catechism

Hate Pedo-Priests, Catholics? Then Don't Tithe This Sunday

Had lunch at Norm's in SanTana yesterday with Tucson resident. Frank Douglas, who writes Voice from the Desert, a blog regarding the Catholic Church's sex-abuse scandal. He was in Southern California to hold a press conference regarding a new effort by the faithful to get the Church hierarchy out of ... More >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Weekly Story on Bishop Brown Pedophile Allegation Proven Right

Five months ago, OC Weekly's Gustavo Arellano broke the news that despite his promises of complete public accountability on the Catholic Church sex scandals, Bishop Tod Brown himself continued to hide accusations that he molested a 12-year-old boy in the 1960s. According to subsequent court transcr ... More >>

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 >>

Godsmack

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

Devils in Disguise

A documentary portrait of a pedophile preist and his pious protectors

King of the County Pedophiles

The life, death and final escape of Eleuterio Ramos

King of the County Pedophiles

The life, death and final escape of Eleuterio Ramos

Take the Bishop Michael Driscoll Pedo-Quiz!

Deal of the Century

The LA-OC Pedophile Priest Swap

Shreddin'!

Other Catholic diocese have destroyed incriminating priest personnel files. Why not Orange?

Lifestyles of the Rich and Pious

A Tour of the Orange Dioceses Most Transubstantiastic Homes

Television Killed the Catholic Star

Given the chance to come clean on sex abuse, Bishop Brown chokesagain

Wishful Adding

Diocese Report Cant Do the Math in Abuse Report

Secrets and Lies

The cleric who turned a blind eye

Coming Clean

Thou Shalt Be Rich

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