Subject: Mike Harris

• The Annotated Bishop Brown Deposition

  Today, Orange County Superior Court Judge Gail Andler ruled that a Sept. 10 deposition of Catholic Diocese of Orange Bishop Tod D. Brown for the Jeff Andrade case be released to the public. As a public service announcement, the Weekly presents an annotated version after the jump with beaucoup hotlinks. Warning: the spin of Brown and diocesan attorney Peter Callahan will cause nausea worthy of Magic Mountain. And for much more background, read our Ex Cathedra and Andrade archives. Pg. 13: Brown

  September 13, 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 diocesan lay employee charged with molestation. That's what makes the current strategy by longtime diocesan lawyer Peter Callahan so bizarre. Callahan has represented the Orange diocese on almost all

  October 3, 2007

• Spot the Pedophilia in YouTube Mater Dei Video!

  You know those quizzes where folks post the same photo except with tweaks (different-striped tie, etc.)? This isn't one of those--no this is better! Start with viewing this 1987 Mater Dei promotional video: Now, list the different associations with Mater Dei pedophiles! Answers after the jump!

  July 11, 2008

• Orange County Bishops and Their Get-Out-of-Jail-Free Card: A History

  I'm getting disappointed with Diocese of Orange Bishop Tod D. Brown. As of recently, I've been reporting more on the kooky actions of former Orange bishops, whether it was homo-hating or homo-hypocrisy, than the current head of the county's Catholics. So it hurts me to report that the latest in Orange County Catholic idiocies again emanates from alumni--in this case Fresno Bishop John Steinbock and his $10,000 donation to the St. Luke's Institute. St. Luke's is notorious as the place where the

  November 20, 2008

• Go Welcome John Urell at His New Parish This Sunday

  The last time we heard from Monsignor John Urell, he was busy having a nervous breakdown for his role in the rapes of innocents in the Diocese of Orange. Shortly after returning from six months of therapy in Canada, Urell announced to parishioners at St. Norbert in Orange that he was leaving to become the pastor at St. Timothy's in Laguna Niguel.Guess what? That happy day is this Sunday! Making a special appearance is Orange Bishop Tod D. Brown, who infamously let Urell scoot off to Canada befor

  December 4, 2008

• Board of Supes Invite Pedo-Priest Apologist To Give Invocation This Monday**

  What is it with the Orange County Board of Supervisors and their love of pedophile apologists? In 2006, Third District Supe Bill Campbell tried placing Monsignor John Urell, the right-hand man of Diocese of Orange bishops for a good decade of their sex-abuse scandal, on the county's human relations commission until molestation victims raised rightful holy hell. Now, an addendum to this Monday's BoS agenda currently lists Monsignor Lawrence Baird as giving the invocation at 9:30 in the morn.Baird

  January 10, 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 pastor at St. Timothy in Laguna Niguel, always comforter to the comforted--recalled how Johnson asked him to volunteer at a soup kitchen in Wilmington. "Bishop's point was that dignity must be restored a

  March 3, 2009

• Why Does Dana Point's St. Edward the Confessor Church Continue to Honor A Teen Rapist?

  Leninan second from right, in a picture Brown would eventually StalinizePoor St. Edward the Confessor Catholic Church in Dana Point. They have the inglorious Diocese of Orange record of having hosted the most pedo-priests (five) in its history. Just recently, Orange Bishop Tod D. Brown settled another suit involving one of them: Denis Lyons. So, a question: given this sordid past, why on Earth does the parish continue to honor teenage rapist John Lenihan?On its history page, the St. Edward the C

  March 6, 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, former auxiliary bishop of the Orange diocese. On the witness stand, news accounts quote Steinbock as saying, "I never have returned anyone to ministry that I believe was guilty of sex abuse."HAHAHAHAHA!

  April 4, 2009

• How William Lobdell Lost His Faith in Orange County

  February 26, 2009

• Cirilo Flores Rarely Pursued Discipline of Molesting Priests While Serving on Important Church Board

  January 15, 2009

• Joelle Casteix Fights for Catholic Church Sex-Abuse Victims While Pursuing Her Own Abuser

  July 10, 2008

• Bad Moves

  September 27, 2007

• Saloons and Such

  Watering holes, bars, dance halls, houses of ill repute, whiskey, wine, tequila, whiskey, whiskey, beer, whiskey, whiskey & also whiskey

  September 20, 2007

• Slammer Time!

  August 5, 2004

• Catholic Confessional Confidential

  September 30, 2004

• Hardwood Babylon

  April 27, 2006

• King of the County Pedophiles

  December 15, 2005

• Gracious

  September 15, 2005

• Letters

  March 3, 2005

• Northern Exposure

  March 3, 2005

• Personnel Bile No. 5: The List

  March 3, 2005

• Loftus' Luster Lost

  February 17, 2005

• Personnel Bile #1

  Weekly announces release of Catholic Church pedo-protecting archives

  February 3, 2005

• Boy-Buggering Bingo!

  10 unlikely winners and losers in the Orange Diocese sodomy sweepstakes

  December 23, 2004

• Deposition Men

  November 18, 2004

• Letters

  August 26, 2004

• The Army of God

  August 12, 2004

• Movin' on Up

  August 12, 2004

• Slammer Time!

  July 29, 2004

• All Aboard the Pedo-Train!

  July 22, 2004

• Let Us Prey

  April 8, 2004

• The Cool Counselor

  March 18, 2004

• Television Killed the Catholic Star

  March 4, 2004

• He Says He Wants a Reformation

  January 29, 2004

• Letters

  January 22, 2004

• Clean Bill of Hell

  January 15, 2004

• The Bawdy of Christ

  December 4, 2003

• Jesucristo con la Verga Visible

  December 4, 2003

• 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

• King of the County Pedophiles

  December 15, 2005

• 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 finances and screwing a fellow priest--died late last month. Ziemann deserves a special spot in Hell, above Eleuterio Ramos but below founding Diocese of Orange Bishop William Johnson. The Archdiocese

  November 11, 2009