Subject: Diocese of Orange

• Another Black Eye for Mater Dei

  The culture of pedophilia at Mater Dei High School has hit the big time. Today, The New York Times examines the rash of non-clerical sex-abuse cases involving the Catholic Church. Mentioned in the second paragraph was Joelle Casteix, a longtime advocate for sex-abuse survivors who was herself a victim of a choir teacher during the 1980s. "Court records indicate," Times reporter Bruce Lambert writes, "that several other staff members—including teachers, a counselor and a coach—also ab

  May 15, 2007

• LA Archdiocese Sex Abuse Settlement: The OC Connection

  The Los Angeles Times is rightfully concentrating on LA-area victims in its coverage of the LA Archdiocese's record-breaking Catholic Church sex-abuse settlement. What's not being covered, however, is the Orange County connection. Named in the settlement are 14 priests whom the Diocese of Orange doesn't list as local predators since they sinned while Orange County was part of the LA Archdiocese (the OC diocese wasn't founded until 1976). And the Diocese of Orange roll call also doesn't include o

  July 16, 2007

• Statement by John Manly on Settlement Against Orange Diocese

  Here's John Manly, the Newport Beach lawyer who represented four sex-abuse victims of employees with the Orange diocese, on the $6.885 million settlement announced this afternoon: Today, Bishop Tod Brown and the Diocese of Orange agreed, at the point of a legal gun and on the eve of trial, to settle four civil cases brought by women who were sexually abused as young girls between 1991 and 1999 by employees of the Diocese of Orange. Most of the abuse took place in the mid to late 1990s by sta

  October 5, 2007

• More on the Defenders of the Bumblin' Friends

  A commentator on my previous post about the latest pee-pee battle between OC Blog god Matt "Jubal" Cunningham and Newport Beach lawyer John Manly pointed out something that deserves further examination. The lawyer helping Cunningham and the Friends of Monsignor John, Darren Aitken, not only is Cunningham's former classmate at Servite High School (the all-boys Catholic prep in Anaheim) but is also the son of Wylie Aitken, one of the county's more prominent lawyers and a longtime Democratic Party

  October 17, 2007

• Thursday's Headlines. No Surprises: Bishop Brown citation dropped

  Bishop Brown citation dropped: The Los Angeles Times reports that a contempt-of-court citation against Orange Bishop Tod Brown has been dropped as part of an almost-$7 million sex abuse settlement. Plaintiff's attorney John Manly said the diocese forced them to drop their bid for the citation: "The diocese insisted that it be done this way or they would have refused to pay our clients." But Diocese of Orange attorney Peter Callahan, in typical Callahan form, said the contempt case was dismissed

  November 29, 2007

• The Most Vile Commentator in Orange County...

  Isn't the anonymous sap taking a beating over his defense of Diocese of Orange statutory rapists but another anonymous coward: ocman18, one of the Orange County Register's many nuts. Yesterday, ocman18 left a cryptic remark on a tragic story involving a Korean woman who was mugged by some Latina pendeja: Hopefully the media will give this case more attention then other cases of late where the so called victim added to their own demise. This lady is a true victim. What was he referring to? The

  February 19, 2008

• Return of Urell, or Johnny B. Bad

  Hey, kids! Your favorite pedophile-tolerating, victim-ignoring, down-breaking Monsignor is back! Well, he may not be YOUR favorite. He's certainly Matt Cunningham's favorite. The Diocese of Orange announced this week that Msgr. John Urell is expected to return as pastor of St. Norbert Church in Orange sometime after Easter. Urell was discharged from a Canadian psychiatric facility earlier this week, after suffering a so-called anxiety attack on the witness stand back in October. From the Reg:

  March 4, 2008

• The Cowardly Bishop Tod Brown

  Apologies for the redundant title, but it's true, especially in light of the Diocese of Orange leader's decision to tell his fellow Bishop, Geoffrey Robinson, to stay away from the county. A bit of background: Robinson is the former Bishop of Sydney who resigned his position after publicly criticizing the church hierarchy for their cover-up in the rape of innocents, of which he was one. He was invited by the Orange County chapter of the Voice of the Faithful to talk about his book, Confronting

  May 21, 2008

• A Few Good Catholics

  Congratulations are in order to the Orange County chapter of Voice of the Faithful (OCVOTF), a Catholic laity organization. Yesterday, we reported how Diocese of Orange Bishop Tod D. Brown wrote a letter to former Diocese of Sydney Bishop Geoffrey Robinson (pictured at left) arrogantly advising him to that "you do not have my permission to speak in the Diocese of Orange" even though Robinson's June 11 lecture at a OCVOTF gathering was to take place at the decidedly secular Costa Mesa Community C

  May 22, 2008

• The Worst OC Catholic Molesting-Priest Apologists Are Mater Dei Monarchs And...

  Mexicans! Yesterday, Orange County Superior Court Judge Lance Jensen sentenced Luis Eduardo Ramirez, an Augustinian who was serving at Our Lady of the Pillar Catholic Church in SanTana, to 180 days in jail for attempting to molest a 17-year-old boy in an Anaheim motel. Ramirez plead guilty to taking the parishioner to the hotel, putting his head in his lap, and reaching up his shirt. This admission did not stop parishioners from getting angry at the conviction. "When the judge announced his d

  August 21, 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, attorneys, and cops--in a night filled with uniforms. I've written about previous versions of this ceremony (but can't find the damn hyperlink right now...), but none will be as offensive as the one

  October 1, 2008

• Must-See TV Producer

  December 11, 2003

• Wishful Adding

  January 8, 2004

• Bishop Soto Records Pro-Prop. 8 Message, God Laughs

  Got a voicemail yesterday in Spanish from Diocese of Sacramento Bishop Jaime Soto urging us wabs to vote sí on Proposition 8 to protect the children, and I spit out the carnitas I was devouring from laughing so hard. Bishop Soto cares for children? The man who, while serving in his hometown Diocese of Orange, helped send off the county's most-notorious pedophile to a Tijuana children's ministry and wrote a letter on behalf of Andrew Christian Andersen, another notorious pedo-priest? Somewhere,

  November 3, 2008

• Saddleback High School Covering Up Sex Crimes by Teacher's Aides?

  This past Monday, a teacher's aide by the name of Alonso Manuel Gonzalez was arrested by SanTana police and released on bail. The Orange County Sheriff's website no longer lists why folks get thrown in the pokey, but the Orange County Superior Court website shows Gonzalez was arrested for a"lewd act with dependant adult by caretaker." Sources tell the Weekly Gonzalez works at Saddleback High School in SanTana and that he works primarily with disabled students--and that school officials are tryi

  November 21, 2008

• The Sad State of Southern California Religion Reporting

  After reading the rewritten press releases offered by the Los Angeles Times, Daily Pilot and Orange County Register on the appointment of the Diocese of Orange's latest pedo-priest-protecting bishop, Cirilo Flores, it's become clear that the worst casualty in Southern California's dying newspaper industry is the religion beat. Not a single report mentioned Flores' role in the rapes of innocents, yet all of them gushed about how Flores has a law degree from Stanford University, mimicking almost s

  January 6, 2009

• KOCE Diocese of Orange Docu Blind To Reality

  One of my favorite channels is KOCE-TV Channel 50's OC Channel, available only on digital antennas (and have you changed your analog TV yet to satisfy the NWO?). It airs nothing but Orange County-related material--not just reruns of KOCE's Real Orange and Inside OC with Rick Reiff, but also weird infomercials and Chapman University-produced programs. But my favorite shows are OC-related documentaries--some years old, others not as much. I'll write about them as I see fit, but one deserves immedi

  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 bother with the real world of news, so a primer: John Urell is a Catholic priest that for years helped run interference for Diocese of Orange bishops when it came to the local sex-abuse scandal. He's abo

  January 19, 2009

• Hey, Federales: Don't Forget the Pedo-Priest Protectors from the Diocese of Orange!

  When I heard late that the United States Attorney's office is investigating Archdiocese of Los Angeles Cardinal Roger Mahony for his role in covering up the rapes committed by his priest, I attributed it to a hallucination brought on by last night's episode of Lost. But here's the Los Angeles Times story that proves it, and all I can say is: what about the Diocese of Orange?According to Times reporters Scott Glover and Jack Leonard, the feds are accusing Mahony and perhaps other L.A. Archdiocese

  January 29, 2009

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

  March 19, 2009

• The Catholic Diocese of Orange's History Book Is Pretty-and Pretty Pathetic

  May 29, 2008

• It's a Quick Read Three-Three

  Orange County Register: An Adventure City security guard shot and killed an Inland Empire man who'd roughed him up around 11 p.m. Tuesday, long after closing time. Ed Gomez, a 14-year employee of the Stanton amusement park, was taken to a hospital and treated for a gash on his head. . . . Roman Catholic priest Michael Nguyen is suing five of his fellow priests, Bishop Tod Brown and the Diocese of Orange for allegedly spreading lies about his competency. That's Nguyen's compet

  April 15, 2009

• Letters

  "If Urell really were a shepherd for his flock, they—and not himself—would have been his main concern."
  

  October 4, 2007

• Letters

  'My combined Mexican-Guatemalan ancestry ranks me somewhere between a syphilitic Chihuahua and Hitlers missing left nut!'

  July 13, 2006

• 'Tittie Twister'!

  October 27, 2005

• Diary of a Mad County

  Aug. 10 - Aug. 16

  August 18, 2005

• Lights! Camera! Silence!

  June 9, 2005

• Personnel Bile No. 7: The Choir Master

  April 14, 2005

• Northern Exposure

  March 3, 2005

• Letters

  January 6, 2005

• The Year In Keeping The Faith

  December 30, 2004

• Deposition Men

  November 18, 2004

• Let Them Eat Wafers

  September 23, 2004

• Movin' on Up

  August 12, 2004

• Hide the Buggering Priests!

  July 8, 2004

• Podex Maximus

  June 24, 2004

• Dirty Money

  He may agree to pay millions to settle sex-abuse cases, but OC Bishop Brown will still win

  June 17, 2004

• Television Killed the Catholic Star

  March 4, 2004

• Clean Bill of Hell

  January 15, 2004

• Don't Forget O.C.'s Abusive Irish Catholic Priests!

  Lenihan, second from right, in a picture Brown StalinizedThe Catholic world is abuzz with the release of a 2,500-page report by an judge documenting decades of physical and sexual abuse suffered by children in Ireland's Papist-run institutions. The report's release is a sad confirmation of the thesis put out by author Joe Rigert in his excellent 2008 book An Irish Tragedy: How Sex Abuse by Irish Priests Helped Cripple the Catholic Church. He posited that Ireland's repressed sexuality created a c

  May 20, 2009

• Funniest Line of This Young Millennium!

  From yesterday's ordination of pedo-priest-protector Cirilo Flores as the latest auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of Orange (of which we'll have more on Monday). Uttered by head Bishop Tod D. Brown, per the Orange County Register, a joke so hilarious it deserves bolding, italics, and underlining:"Bishops are the ones who speak truth in season and out of season."HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHASorry, where was I? Oh, yeah: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.Trut

  March 20, 2009

• John Manly Writes to John Moorlach Regarding Pedo-Apologist Baird

  Perhaps no one* has more moral weight in the Diocese of Orange sex-abuse scandal than Newport Beach lawyer John Manly, of Manly & Stewart. It's because of Manly's law offices that so many victims have found justice through civil courts, that the public knows about the pedo-protecting ways of Orange bishops and so many others through his release of once-confidential documents and depositions. Because of this, many county Catholics and GOP loudmouths despise him, even though Manly was enough o

  January 12, 2009

• A Plea to Holy Sepulcher Cemetery And Other Such Offenders to Stop Using Backhoe Loaders

  God has blessed me with few deaths in my immediate family--my paternal grandfather of a heart attack when I was four, my abuelito de my mom's side of old age, two cousins at a young age, and the passing away of my maternal grandmother last week at age 95. We buried her yesterday at Holy Sepulcher Cemetery in Orange (when this Catholic dies, I'd be surprised if the Diocese of Orange would even grant my parents a garbage can for my body to rest because of  my pedo-priest-exposing ways). While

  June 28, 2009

• John Urell Gets Punked!!!

  John Urell, pastor to the powerful (see: Supervisor Bill Campbell, blog king Matt "Jubal" Cunningham), pedo-priest protector supreme, was the victim of a brilliant prank this past Sunday at St. Timothy in Laguna Niguel. Someone created the flyer above, which details at length Urell's role in the Diocese of Orange's sex-abuse scandal, and inserted it into nearly all the church bulletins after morning Mass. Even better, the same prankster slipped the flyer under the windshield of every car in St.

  July 2, 2009

• I Owe an OC Register Reporter Lunch Because of a Pedo-Priest!

  Lyons mug shotBelieve it or not, I have a couple of friends who work for the Orange County Register. Won't name names lest they fall under corporate microscope, but I bet one of them that the District Attorney's Office would never criminally try Denis Lyons, the longtime Diocese of Orange pedo-priest who has cost Bishop Tod D. Brown more than $4 million.Best lunch I ever lost. Register reporter Rachanee Srisavasdi (not the person I will soon take out for good grub at a SanTana taco truck) report

  July 21, 2009

• Friday Film Funnies Fun: OC Diocese Priest Retreat!

  A tipster alerted us to the video below, which shows priests from the Diocese of Orange at the desert retreat I wrote about in May. Nothing too scandalous to note, but full confirmation of my argument: Orange Bishop Tod D. Brown, despite a vow of fiscal sanity following his see's $100 million sex-abuse settlement in 2005 and the cutback of numerous services affecting lay people (mostly students) as a result of his fumbling ways, doesn't care at all about the faithful and but will pinch no pennie

  July 10, 2009

• OC Diocese Convicted Perv Albert Lee Schildknecht Violated Probation, Served Jail Time

  Schildknecht​Finally! The Diocese of Orange has its third pervert to ever serve jail time for sexually abusing a minor: Albert Lee Schildknecht, a former choir directory at St. Timothy in Laguna Niguel (home to pedo-apologist supreme John Urell), who plead guilty earlier this year to two felony counts of oral copulation of a minor and one felony of sexual penetration with a foreign object of a minor but amazingly received a sentence of five years probation. The terms of the probation exp

  September 9, 2009

• Feeling Slutty? Let Us Dress You Up as OC's Scariest People!

  October 29, 2009

• Catholic Church Molestation Survivor Starts Non-Profit to Fight Sex Abuse

  Kroll: Wonder if John Urell Ever Apologized to Her for Being an Ass...​One of the main criticisms Catholic pedo-apologists have against the survivors that dare sue the Church in civil lawsuits boils down to this twisted logic: if the victims just care about exposing the truth, then why are they asking for money? Don't civil suits just show that they're really money-grubbers who wanted it as kids and teens?This is the official line of the Diocese of Orange, of Bishop Tod D. Brown and his slop b

  November 3, 2009

• Separated at Birth? Ask a Mexican's Logo, Saddleback College's Gaucho

  ​Sorry to say I don't know much about Saddleback College in Mission Viejo. I went there once with a cute Vietnamese girl in 2001 to hear Nobel Prize laureate Rigoberta Menchu speak, and I once asked South Orange County Community College District trustee and longtime GOP head Tom Fuentes about his feelings regarding the Diocese of Orange sex-abuse scandal (the very first Ex Cathedra story) after a board meeting at the hilly campus. And my chica once presented there, so I had to drop her off.My

  November 10, 2009