Subject: Joelle Casteix

• 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

• A Challenge to Mater Dei Apologists

  Congratulations, Mater Dei alumni, students, and anyone who has any pride because of your relationship to the Catholic high school! My open letter to current Monarchs quarterback Matt Barkley asking him to think twice about lending his prodigious arm to a school that long tolerated rapist teachers and administrators is now the second-most-commented post in Navel Gazing history ever (the record holder is R. Scott Moxley's news of former Orange County sheriff Mike Carona's indictment). Most of t

  February 14, 2008

• To the Anonymous, Mater Dei-Loving Faxing Coward

  **UPDATE: This is now the most-commented post in Navel Gazing history. Keep up the wackiness, readers! Over the years I've covered the Catholic Diocese of Orange sex-abuse scandal, I've found few people braver than Joelle Casteix. She's one of Orange County's most prominent sex-abuse survivors (a choir director repeatedly raped Casteix while she was a student at Mater Dei High during the 1980s) and frequently stands outside churches to demand clueless Catholics hear the voices of the Orange dio

  February 18, 2008

• This Week in the OC Weekly

  July 11, 2008

• Go Help the Saints this Weekend

  Since we're all staycationing this Labor Day weekend, make yourself useful and show up to Our Lady of the Pillar Catholic Church in SanTana. That's where SNAP (Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests) members will be leafleting outside from 9 a.m. through 11 p.m. to protest the kid's-glove treatment of convicted boy molester Father Luis Eduardo Ramirez. The SNAP people know it's going to be an ugly scene, being Our Lady of the Pillar parishioners sent more than 2,000 letters of support to R

  August 29, 2008

• Sex Abuse Survivors Treated Nicely by Mexican Catholics (God Exists Edition)

  Talked to the indefatigable Joelle Casteix of Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests today for an update to SNAP's action this past Sunday at Our Lady of the Pillar in SanTana. Catholic Church sex-abuse survivors were passing out information on admitted boy-lover Luis Eduardo Ramirez. I predicted out loud that the super-majority Mexican parishioners wouldn't take kindly to them, and surprise, surprise—-it was the gabachos who were the bigger jerks. Casteix says the event overall went "sh

  September 5, 2008

• A Red Mass Dispatch

  I'm currently at Hamilton College, ready to spread the Good News about Mexicans, so I couldn't attend last night's Diocese of Orange Red Mass at Holy Family Cathedral. Thankfully, longtime sex-abuse victim advocate Joelle Casteix was there and provided this dispatch: The red mass was not well attended. I was pretty surprised. At least it wasn't raining. There were less than half of the people that we saw in 2004. I also didn't see Callahan or Schinderle (Gustavo note: the Orange diocese p

  October 7, 2008

• Meet OC's New Pedo-Apologizing Bishop, Same as the Old Pedo-Apologizing Bishop

  *Updated, with new info on the bottom...The Vatican announced today that the Rev. Cirilo Flores, currently at St. Anne's in SanTana, is now the new auxiliary bishop for the Diocese of Orange, replacing homo-hating pedo-apologist Jaime Soto. It's obviously an affirmative action hire, not only because Orange Bishop Tod D. Brown needs a token Latino alongside his token Vietnamese, Bishop Dominic Luong, but because His Excellency needs to please the pedo-apologists in his flock, a significant consti

  January 5, 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 press conference outside the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, otherwise known as the Rog Mahal after Cardinal Roger Mahony. The survivors were there to talk about the news that the United States Dis

  February 4, 2009

• Letters from OC Weekly Readers

  July 17, 2008

• Letters

  OC Weekly is a stupid tabloid for journalists/writers who could never make it to a real newspaper!
  

  October 11, 2007

• Full-Court Mess

  June 28, 2007

• OC's 31 Scariest People

  Now 25 percent more terrifying!

  October 27, 2005

• Facts and Feces

  May 26, 2005

• Goodwill Shunting

  January 20, 2005

• The "All-Spin" Zone

  January 13, 2005

• Boy-Buggering Bingo!

  10 unlikely winners and losers in the Orange Diocese sodomy sweepstakes

  December 23, 2004

• Sexual Reeling

  How the Register blew the Orange Diocese sex-abuse story

  December 9, 2004

• Best of OC 2004: Part 4

  October 21, 2004

• The Army of God

  August 12, 2004

• Dirty Money

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

  June 17, 2004

• The Cool Counselor

  March 18, 2004

• Clean Bill of Hell

  January 15, 2004

• The Bawdy of Christ

  December 4, 2003

• Jesucristo con la Verga Visible

  December 4, 2003

• I Would Have Nothing to Offer

  November 27, 2003

• Priest, Parishioner at St. John the Baptist in Costa Mesa Attack Sex-Abuse Survivors

  Lyons: Pedo-priest has fans at St. John the Baptist​A dispatch from longtime Catholic Church sex-abuse victim advocate, third-generation OCer, and all-around great gal Joelle Casteix. Happened yesterday at St. John the Baptist in Costa Mesa, where she and other survivors were leafleting because that was one of the parishes where pedophile priest Denis Lyons served. I'd love to get the side of the pastor who Casteix says tried to slap away her fliers with information urging any sex-abuse victim

  August 3, 2009

• Roman Polanski and His Supporters No Better than OC Pedo-Priests and their Apologists

  I'm glad to see that prominent Catholic church sex-abuse victims advocate and Orange County resident/native Joelle Casteix is publicly criticizing the perverted director Roman Polanski and his apologists.They remind me of those ghouls, many Mater Dei High graduates, who offer every sort of excuse for an admitted rapist, who say forced sodomy was just a misunderstanding, who throw going-away parties for pedophiles, who prop up molesters with cushy jobs, who say the victim wanted it so that makes

  October 1, 2009