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Joelle Casteix

  • Blogs

    May 15, 2007

    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 vict ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 14, 2008

    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 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 18, 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 c ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 11, 2008

    This Week in the OC Weekly

    **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 c ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 29, 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 trea ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 5, 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 predic ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 7, 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 atten ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 5, 2009

    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 ... 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 >>

  • Columns

    July 17, 2008

    Letters from OC Weekly Readers

    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 >>

  • Columns

    October 11, 2007

    Letters

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

  • News

    June 28, 2007

    Full-Court Mess

    Admitted Mater Dei molester raising money for high schoolers

  • Features

    October 27, 2005

    OC's 31 Scariest People

    Now 25 percent more terrifying!

  • News

    May 26, 2005

    Facts and Feces

    Rewrite history with the Register! Its fun!

  • Features

    October 21, 2004

    Best of OC 2004: Part 4

    Rewrite history with the Register! Its fun!

  • Blogs

    August 3, 2009

    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 th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 1, 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 fo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 29, 2010

    OC Catholic Sex-Abuse Survivor Visits Guam to Give its Pedo-Priests Hell

    Wonder if Brownie sent any pedo-priests out here...​This past Saturday, after traveling for nearly 24 hours nonstop, Joelle Casteix finally returned home after a week of giving pedophile priests and their apologists hell. The setting wasn't her usual stomping grounds outside any Diocese of Orange ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 29, 2010

    OC Catholic Sex-Abuse Survivor to Protest at St. Angela Merici Tomorrow

    Flores: Never met a pedo-priest he didn't cover up for...​While nearly all of us try to relax this Memorial Day weekend, Catholic sex-abuse survivors know that pedo-priest protecting never stops. Thus, the indefatigable Joelle Casteix and other survivors will protest tomorrow at 10 a.m. in front o ... More >>

  • Columns

    July 22, 2010

    Letters From OC Weekly Readers

    Flores: Never met a pedo-priest he didn't cover up for...​While nearly all of us try to relax this Memorial Day weekend, Catholic sex-abuse survivors know that pedo-priest protecting never stops. Thus, the indefatigable Joelle Casteix and other survivors will protest tomorrow at 10 a.m. in front o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 30, 2010

    Orange Coast Magazine Pulls All Punches in Article on OC Diocese's Most-Prominent Sex-Abuse Survivor

    Orange Coast story...​I'm glad that Joelle Casteix--sex-abuse survivor from the Diocese of Orange's grubby employees and its most-prominent critic--is getting more and more attention, even if Orange Coast's profile of her in this month's issue is a blatant rip-off of my two-year-old Casteix profil ... More >>

  • News

    September 2, 2010

    Killer Quince

    Happy Quinceañera to us! A look back at 15 years of telling the other side (that is, the real side) of OC's story

  • Blogs

    February 16, 2011

    [UPDATED]: Parishioners at St. Norbert Church in Orange Angry That Presbyterian Minister Allowed to Celebrate Mass--But What About John Urell?

    Urell the pedo-protector​UPDATED: 4: 25 P.M.: The St. Norbert priest who allowed the Presbyterian to concelebrate Mass, Agustin Escobar, has been placed on leave. The swiftness in which the Diocese of Orange acted to remove Escobar while letting pedo-priests officiate over Mass for years after an ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 27, 2011

    Why Won't Major Publishing Companies Publish Joelle Casteix's Book?

    ​Longtime readers of the Weekly know Joelle Casteix, former cover girl for being the most-prominent critic of the Catholic Diocese of Orange and its handling of its sex-abuse scandal, of which she was a survivor. Casteix is charming, funny, iron-willed, indefatigable--and on top of all this, she's ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 24, 2011

    Sex-Abuse Survivors to Leaflet Outside HB's Sts. Simon and Jude Catholich Church This Sunday

    ​Just got word from the indefatigable Joelle Casteix that the Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests (SNAP) will leaflet outside Sts. Simon and Jude Catholic Church this Sunday morning, starting with 9 a.m. Mass. They're going to alert parishioners of the former pedo-priest that served in th ... More >>

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