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May 26, 2006
Mater Hey!
Glad to see the Los Angeles Times follow up earlier this week on the Mater Dei High girl-diddling basketball coach scandal we wrote about in April. Yesterday, a judge ruled attorney John Manly can interrogate anyone he damn wants for the civil trial. Might one of those people be Orange County Treas ... More >>
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December 2, 2006
Suck on it, USC!
My alma mater (at least for the MA) shocked USC, 13-9, a great joy for all of us who despise the lords of Orange County. Click over to OC Blog, where you can find a comprehensive list of these terrible Trojans (my boss and courageous Catholic lawyer John Manly excepted). Also remember that South Coa ... More >>
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May 26, 2007
Another Sex-Abuse Accusation Against Diocese of Orange
It's now been over a month since the Weekly revealed that Diocese of Orange Bishop Tod D. Brown had a molestation allegation lodged against him in the past. We knew Brown wouldn't comment on the matter (we thought about confronting him yesterday, when he presided over the Confirmation of my brother ... More >>
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September 11, 2007
Breaking: OC Diocese Lawyers Seek to Seal Bishop Brown Deposition
Over the weekend, attorneys with the firm of Manly, McGuire & Stewart deposed former Catholic Diocese of Orange Bishop Norman McFarland and current bishop Tod D. Brown as part of the firm's ongoing lawsuit against the Orange Diocese, Mater Dei High School, and former boy's basketball coach Jeff Andr ... More >>
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September 17, 2007
OC Diocese Paid Admitted Child Molester $100,000
Back in 2004, the Catholic Diocese of Orange quietly settled a lawsuit filed against former Mater Dei boys' basketball coach Jeff Andrade. To quote from my 2006 story regarding a current molestation lawsuit against Andrade: "In 2003, Mater Dei officials admitted to Orange County Register reporter ... More >>
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September 25, 2007
Statutory Rapist Andrade And Pals Seek to Block Many Things
A slew of in limine motions filed this past week by former Mater Dei High School boys' basketball coach/admitted statutory rapist Jeff Andrade and his former employers, the Catholic Diocese of Orange. Andrade's lawyers moved that any potential jury not hear "in any manner, either directly or indirec ... More >>
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September 28, 2007
Subpoenas Sought for Urell, Urell’s Attorneys
Links to come--am boarding a plane to El Paso... While OC Weekly cover boy Monsignor John Urell is in Canada to presumably get his rocks back in order, the Jeff Andrade matter trudges on. The latest twist: Urell’s lawyer is busy fighting a subpoena filed against the two of them filed by Newport B ... More >>
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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 >>
Blogs
October 3, 2007
Did John Urell Lie During his Deposition?
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 >>
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October 3, 2007
Diocesan Lawyers All of a Sudden Uppity
For decades, the Catholic Diocese of Orange has dealt with survivors of its pedo-priests in secrecy--sealed settlements, claimed ignorance, and always, always, away from a jury. In none of the civil settlements that the Orange diocese signed off on were there any admission of guilt by the priest or ... More >>
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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 >>
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October 5, 2007
A Critique of a Critique Criticizing My Bishop Brown Critique
Google is great, really: a couple of random searches, and voila! You have a media critique. At least that's how Dave Pierre, author of The Media Report and a contributor to NewsBusters, operates with my recent LA Times opinion piece bashing Catholic Diocese of Orange Bishop Tod D. Brown. Under the h ... More >>
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October 5, 2007
Breaking: Orange Diocese Settles Andrade Case
Scroll down for updates as they come... Just received word that the Catholic Diocese of Orange just settled a civil suit filed against it and former Mater Dei High School boys' basketball coach Jeff Andrade. Strange, considering diocesan lawyers were publicly proclaiming they were raring to start t ... More >>
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October 5, 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 settl ... More >>
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October 9, 2007
Peepee Match Between John Manly, Jubal On!
Today, Judge Gail Andler refused to dismiss a contempt-of-court motion filed against Diocese of Orange Bishop Tod D. Brown by his longtime nemesis, John Manly for the recently settled Jeff Andrade case. Read more about the hearing in this Thursday's issue of the paper--for this post, I'll discuss a ... More >>
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October 10, 2007
Urell Supporters Take Out Full-Page Ad in OC Register
We rarely read past Page Four of the Orange County Register's front page, since anything beyond that is usually Macy's ads and rehashed Associated Press or Reuters blurbs. Indeed, we didn't read past page four this morning until an eagle-eyed reader (gracias, amigo) alerted us to a full-page ad take ... More >>
Blogs
October 10, 2007
"Friends of Monsignor John" Already Deletin'
Scroll for updates after the jump... A support group for embattled Orange diocese Monsignor John Urell isn't even a day old, and already site administrators are deleting messages critical of Urell and his peers' handling of the diocese's sex-abuse scandal. You won't know this from reading their web ... More >>
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October 12, 2007
"Friends of Monsignor John" Not Friends to Sex-Abuse Victims
The "Friends of Monsignor John," a support group for embattled Diocese of Orange Monsignor John Urell that counts as members OC Blog founder Matt "Jubal" Cunningham and Rancho Santiago Community College District board president John Hanna, claim they care about sex-abuse victims. Indeed, a page on t ... More >>
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October 16, 2007
The Continuing Story of the Bunglin' Friends of Monsignor John
Go visit the website of the Friends of Monsignor John, the brave individuals who sought to publicly support the Catholic Diocese of Orange's longtime point man in its horrendous sex-abuse scandal. Notice anything different? Notice there are no more comments, deleted or otherwise? Notice there are no ... More >>
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October 17, 2007
Friends of Monsignor John Fully Repentant, Involve More Politicos
The bumblin' Friends of Monsignor John got walloped yesterday on the radio by the John and Ken Show, and today in print by Orange County Register columnist Frank Mickadeit for their, well, bumblin' (read our archives for background on the matter, por favor). Mickadeit elicited the first public respo ... More >>
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October 17, 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 Cunni ... More >>
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October 19, 2007
Jubal Speaks
Nearly a week after posting an unredacted deposition revealing the names of six Orange diocese sex abuse victims, Friends of Monsignor John Urell webmaster Matt "Jubal" Cunningham posted a lengthy apology on his powerful, widely read OC Blog. Cunningham's mea culpa is rather extraordinary in that hi ... More >>
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November 20, 2007
OC Diocese Not Paying Sex-Abuse Victims?
On Oct. 5, Catholic Diocese of Orange Bishop Tod D. Brown announced that the Orange diocese had settled four molestation claims against former lay employees for $6.685 million. Today, the Orange diocese is supposed to pay up--but plaintiff's attorney John Manly says Bishop Brown and his cronies have ... More >>
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November 29, 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 ... More >>
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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 >>
News
December 6, 2007
a Peek at the Bishop's Past
Bishop Brown Escapes OC Court Date, But Now he Must Reckon with Monterey
Blogs
February 9, 2009
The Devolution of a Mater Dei Apologist
Until we upgrade our blog, many of ustedes might not know about the many fights raging on blog posts of the past--the old posts that seem to get the most attention include those on local Armenian genocide denier Ergun Kirlikovali, Laotian Secret Army general Vang Pao, and my review of Lola Gaspar. B ... More >>
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February 12, 2009
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 >>
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April 4, 2009
Former O.C. Bishop Lies Like a Devil in Fresno Pedophile Case
Yesterday, a Fresno jury acquitted the Catholic Diocese of Fresno of culpability in the priestly rapes of innocents, and does this news really surprise you given Fresno is Fresno? We really can't expect much intellectually and morally of this town, given its head padre is Bishop John Steinbock, form ... More >>
News
January 15, 2009
Cirilo Flores Rarely Pursued Discipline of Molesting Priests While Serving on Important Church Board
Yesterday, a Fresno jury acquitted the Catholic Diocese of Fresno of culpability in the priestly rapes of innocents, and does this news really surprise you given Fresno is Fresno? We really can't expect much intellectually and morally of this town, given its head padre is Bishop John Steinbock, form ... More >>
Features
July 10, 2008
Joelle Casteix Fights for Catholic Church Sex-Abuse Victims While Pursuing Her Own Abuser
Yesterday, a Fresno jury acquitted the Catholic Diocese of Fresno of culpability in the priestly rapes of innocents, and does this news really surprise you given Fresno is Fresno? We really can't expect much intellectually and morally of this town, given its head padre is Bishop John Steinbock, form ... More >>
News
October 11, 2007
Fiddlin' in St. Augustine
A Tale of Two Sex-Abuse Settlements in the Orange Diocese
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
News
August 9, 2007
McKnight Shifts
Who’s Telling the Truth in Mater Dei’s Latest Sex-Abuse Trial: Its President, the School’s Legendary Basketball Coach, or the OC Weekly?
News
February 22, 2007
McKnight Out
Catholic Church Leaders Protect Mater Dei Coach from Deposition
News
February 1, 2007
McKnight Moves
Lawsuit reveals tampering charges against famed basketball coach
News
January 25, 2007
McKnight Fall
Gary McKnight built an athletic empire at Mater Dei. Will his role in a pedophiles return to campus destroy it?
News
December 21, 2006
Mcknight Errant
Famed Mater Dei basketball coach helped pedophile get a jobat Mater Dei
Film
November 9, 2006
The Wretched of the Wretches
Will OC see the ultimate Catholic pedophile bare all in Deliver Us From Evil?
News
April 27, 2006
Hardwood Babylon
A decade later, Mater Dei High Schools still protecting a coach accused of sleeping with students
News
December 15, 2005
King of the County Pedophiles
The life, death and final escape of Eleuterio Ramos
News
March 24, 2005
Shreddin'!
Other Catholic diocese have destroyed incriminating priest personnel files. Why not Orange?
News
March 3, 2005
Northern Exposure
By trashing Spitzer, Register protects GOP, Catholic Church
Blogs
January 12, 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 Ora ... More >>
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July 9, 2007
OC Diocese Lawyer Trashes OC Weekly But Still Loses
Last month, famed Newport Beach attorney John Manly sent two associates to Monterey so they could argue before a judge why Manly should depose Catholic Diocese of Orange Bishop Tod D. Brown. Why Monterey? Brown was the Diocese of Monterey Chancellor until 1989, and Manly represents an alleged cleric ... More >>
Blogs
September 9, 2009
OC Diocese Convicted Perv Albert Lee Schildknecht Violated Probation, Served Jail Time
SchildknechtFinally! 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 fel ... More >>
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November 11, 2009
Tod Brown Allowed Funeral of Pervert Bishop G. Patrick Ziemann at Holy Family Cathedral
Ziemann: Inflicted Hell, now receiving it...Sorry we're late to the party, but G. Patrick Ziemann--a teacher at Mater Dei during the early 1970s who went on to become an auxiliary bishop in Los Angeles and head bishop at the Diocese of Santa Rosa before resigning in disgrace for screwing up its f ... More >>
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January 27, 2010
Since When did the OC Register Take Writing Lessons from the Diocese of Orange?
Bishop Brown: Does he take his lattes extra-frothy?Ever since the Catholic Diocese of Orange has employed boy-diddlers and girl-rapists, the official party line has always been this, a party line swallowed whole by its apologists: when it came to teenagers molested by its employees, it wasn't rap ... More >>
Blogs
June 16, 2010
Roger Mahony Calls Family of Sex-Abuse Victim, Victim "Illegal Aliens"
For years, the greatest shield Archdiocese of Los Angeles Cardinal Roger Mahony has used to protect his pedo-priest-protecting ass from the full wrath of the public is Mexicans, specifically of the illegal kind. His Eminence blesses marches for LA's many amnesty rallies, has spoken out against Pr ... More >>
News
July 15, 2010
Tod Brown's Own Private Idaho
The Orange bishop's track record of covering up for sexual misconduct by priests didn't start here
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