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John the Baptist

  • Blogs

    May 13, 2012

    The OCeeker: Baha'i Center and the Pick-a-Prophet People of God

    A lot of ye heathen have a favorite phrase whenever the question of God, man and the meaning of it all comes up: "I'm not religious. I'm spiritual." Granted, ye only say this when accosted by a Jehovah's Witness or downing a Natural Light in the drowning hours of night. But good on ya anyway, f ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 27, 2012

    OC Romanians Want Their Confiscated Properties Under Commies Back, Once and For All

    She sat on the front steps of her house in a Romanian village as government officials began demolishing it. She refused to move from her spot on the entrance stairs as the roar of bulldozers crushed the walls behind her. When communists came to power in Eastern Europe, private property became public ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 28, 2012

    Another Civil Lawsuit Filed Against Diocese of Orange and Pedo-Priest it Protected, Denis Lyons

    ​Not even a week after Denis Lyons pleaded guilty to being a child molester, another civil lawsuit has been filed against him and his longtime protector, the Catholic Diocese of Orange.The lawsuit was actually introduced into Orange County Superior Court in September but was just delivered to Lyon ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 19, 2012

    Taco Bell Celebrates Its 50th Aniversary This Week; 5 Ways the Bell Helped Mexican Food Become Better in the U.S.

    ​Taco Bell, the Mexican fast-food giant everyone loves to hate, celebrates its 50th anniversary this week and...yeah. Heaven knows it's an easy whipping boy for everything wrong with Mexican food in this country: the bastardized meals, the incessant appropriation (this week: I finally reveal the n ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 24, 2012

    Sinful Sex at TBN and a Motor Home for Jan Crouch's Dogs Alleged in Lawsuit

    ​Sex scandals are merely crumbs from the table of a lawsuit filed this week against Trinity Christian Center of Santa Ana, which includes allegations that founders Paul and Jan Crouch fetched a $50 million jet through a "sham loan to an alter ego corporation" and that a $100,000 motor home was pur ... More >>

  • Columns

    February 23, 2012

    Letters From OC Weekly Readers

    ​Sex scandals are merely crumbs from the table of a lawsuit filed this week against Trinity Christian Center of Santa Ana, which includes allegations that founders Paul and Jan Crouch fetched a $50 million jet through a "sham loan to an alter ego corporation" and that a $100,000 motor home was pur ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 19, 2012

    The OCeeker: ROCKHARBOR and Another Episode of Cheaters

    ​Our little ROCKHARBOR (not "Rock Harbor," as the damn liberal media always mistakenly calls it) is all grown up. The Costa Mesa church that was the hippest among Orange County church hoppers when it exploded on the scene in 1997 has settled into a comfy-cozy multi-generational ministry that serve ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 18, 2011

    Crystal Cathedral Bidding War Won by Catholic Diocese

    ​A $59 million hail Mary by Chapman University did not overcome the hail Marys of parishoners, clergy and a certain bishop as a bankruptcy judge decided Thursday afternoon that the Crystal Cathedral will be sold to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Orange for $57.5 million.By siding with the Crystal C ... More >>

  • Columns

    September 22, 2011

    Letters From OC Weekly Readers

    ​A $59 million hail Mary by Chapman University did not overcome the hail Marys of parishoners, clergy and a certain bishop as a bankruptcy judge decided Thursday afternoon that the Crystal Cathedral will be sold to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Orange for $57.5 million.By siding with the Crystal C ... More >>

  • Food

    August 11, 2011

    Dat Thanh Sells Nom Nom Nem Nuong Cuon

    [Hole In the Wall] This Westminster family restaurant has the best barbecue spring rolls in OC—but the broken-rice dishes are even better

  • Blogs

    March 29, 2010

    Jim Kempner and Lonnie Frisbee: a Tale of Two Sinners

    beachcitiescalvary.orgJim Kempner (the older man in the center) and other Beach Cities Calvary pastors.​Enrollment has been declining at Prince of Peace School, a private Christian preschool and K-6 elementary campus in Costa Mesa's Mesa Verde neighborhood, since revelations surfaced that the past ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 18, 2010

    Why Did God Flood St. John the Baptist?

    ​So, the Rev. Wiley Drake agrees with Pat Robertson that God's wrath over a pact Haiti made with the Devil is what's behind the tiny nation's unending woes. The First Southern Baptist Church of Buena Park pastor tells the Orange County Register he's not sure the Almighty dialed in the earthquake t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 26, 2009

    Poverty-Relief Demand Grows, But So Does "Purposeful Giving"

    ​On a local television newscast this week, Karen McGlinn, executive director of the Costa Mesa-based Share Our Selves (SOS) poverty relief nonprofit, said demand for assistance has jumped 50 percent since the beginning of the year. Heading into its 40th year--SOS was started in 1970 by a small gro ... More >>

  • 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

    May 28, 2009

    So-Called "Anaheim Priestess" a Big, Loony Fraud

    LeeThe American media is abuzz and aTwittering with reports about how an Anaheim woman who calls herself the Rev. Brenda Lee was removed from LAX this morning after she tried to give President Barack Obama a letter about her opposition to gay marriage. All reported she calls herself a Catholic pries ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 10, 2009

    Happy Good Friday, Straight From the Email Inbox

    Two very different Easter takes arrived in Clockwork's inbox today, Good Friday, from Tim Leedom and Bobby Bible.Newport Beach filmmaker and author Leedom has written extensively about the true origins of religions and religious mythologies. He writes:THE JESUS PUZZLEAt least two times a year, Jesus ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 3, 2009

    John Urell Shown To Be Even More of an Asshole to Sex-Abuse Victims than First Thought

    Urell at the moment he went cuckooIn 1986, after the death of founding Diocese of Orange Bishop William Johnson, a young John Urell penned a moving tribute in the Los Angeles Times to the man whom set the diocese on its proud pedo-priest-protecting path. Urell--then the secretary to Johnson, now pas ... More >>

  • News

    October 23, 2008

    [Election 2008] 10 Signs That People Besides Us In OC Think John McCain Sucks, Too

    Urell at the moment he went cuckooIn 1986, after the death of founding Diocese of Orange Bishop William Johnson, a young John Urell penned a moving tribute in the Los Angeles Times to the man whom set the diocese on its proud pedo-priest-protecting path. Urell--then the secretary to Johnson, now pas ... More >>

  • News

    September 11, 2008

    This Is Your Life: A Companion Guide/Shameless Propaganda for 'Orange County: A Personal History'

    Urell at the moment he went cuckooIn 1986, after the death of founding Diocese of Orange Bishop William Johnson, a young John Urell penned a moving tribute in the Los Angeles Times to the man whom set the diocese on its proud pedo-priest-protecting path. Urell--then the secretary to Johnson, now pas ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 29, 2007

    The Orange Diocese's Record-Breaking Streak

    This year's edition of our annual Scariest People issue includes two entries from the Catholic Diocese of Orange: lead sex-abuse lawyer Peter Callahan and Varsity Gold, the high-school fundraising outfit that hired and proudly employees statutory rapist (and former Mater Dei boys' assistant basketba ... More >>

  • News

    April 19, 2007

    So I Married a Terrorist . . .

    Saraah Olsons strange trip through the U.S. war on terror

  • News

    October 12, 2006

    Gloria in Exclusion Deo

    Why does Orange bishop Tod Brown worry about a boring Latin Mass?

  • Blogs

    December 2, 2005

    A Most Taxing Situation

    Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration P.O. Box 589 Ben Franklin Station Washington, DC 20044-0589 Dear TIGfTA: How goes the number crunching, amigo. Say, just wanted to drop you a line about something I read recently about you folks at the IRS coming down hard on the former Rector Geor ... More >>

  • Features

    October 27, 2005

    OC's 31 Scariest People

    Now 25 percent more terrifying!

  • Columns

    October 13, 2005

    A Clockwork Orange

    Now 25 percent more terrifying!

  • Web

    August 4, 2005

    A CLOCKWORK ORANGE

    Now 25 percent more terrifying!

  • Features

    July 7, 2005

    Lords of Acid

    How the Brotherhood of Eternal Love Became OCs Hippie Mafia

  • Features

    March 3, 2005

    The First Jesus Freak

    A pot-smokin, LSD-droppin seeker turned Calvary Chapel into a household name. So why is Lonnie Frisbee missing from church history?

  • News

    March 3, 2005

    Personnel Bile No. 5: The List

    The List

  • Columns

    January 13, 2005

    Diary of a Mad County

    The List

  • Film

    January 30, 2003

    Magical History Tour

    Sokurovs Russian Ark

  • Culture

    February 7, 2002

    The Ultimate Kitten

    Ladies and gentlemen, Ann-Margret

  • News

    January 25, 2001

    Bring on the End Times

    Is clonejesus.com for real?

  • Features

    September 14, 2000

    Excerpts: Part 1

    Is clonejesus.com for real?

  • Culture

    July 13, 2000

    Pre-Postmodern Elvis

    The Crooners Lounge is serious about the King

  • Columns

    June 22, 2000

    Who's Gay In History?

    Pretty much everybody

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