Subject: Norman McFarland

• 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

• Diocese of Fresno Lies to OC Weekly, Spins for Brown

  September 14, 2007

• Did John Urell Lie During his Deposition?

  October 3, 2007

• Bishop McFarland to Priests: Stop Touching Boys!

  Just got off the phone with Malcolm Smith, a former priest in the Orange diocese who served at St. Kilian Church in Mission Viejo during the mid-1990s. Smith was there when Patrick Ziemann--then the Bishop of Santa Rosa, formerly a Mater Dei instructor--allegedly abused a boy during confession at a religious retreat. When the boy's mother complained to then-Orange Bishop Norman McFarland about the incident, His Excellency replied by stating he couldn't "conceive it as being possibly true, either

  October 30, 2007

• Coming Red Mass "Shaping Up to be the Best Ever," Says Pedo-Apologist-Honoring Lawyer

  The Catholic Diocese of Orange's Red Mass will occur today, and David Belz is happy! In a confidential e-mail obtained by the Weekly, the Rancho Santa Margarita attorney and member of the local chapter of the St. Thomas More Society tells the letter's recipients that "The 2008 Red Mass is shaping up to be the best ever. We have commitments from the largest number of judges we have ever had." Ooh, goody! You mean it'll be better than the Red Mass where all those judges and attorneys ignored the

  October 6, 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

• Hey, Federales: Don't Forget the Pedo-Priest Protectors from the Diocese of Orange!

  When I heard late that the United States Attorney's office is investigating Archdiocese of Los Angeles Cardinal Roger Mahony for his role in covering up the rapes committed by his priest, I attributed it to a hallucination brought on by last night's episode of Lost. But here's the Los Angeles Times story that proves it, and all I can say is: what about the Diocese of Orange?According to Times reporters Scott Glover and Jack Leonard, the feds are accusing Mahony and perhaps other L.A. Archdiocese

  January 29, 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

• 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

• A Priest the Diocese of Orange Admits Faced an Abuse Accusation Is Still in Ministry In Spain

  March 19, 2009

• Catholic Confessional Confidential

  September 30, 2004

• The Damning Documents

  December 15, 2005

• King of the County Pedophiles

  December 15, 2005

• Personnel Bile No. 4: The Boneyard Tryst

  February 24, 2005

• More Bang, Please

  October 14, 2004

• Letters

  September 16, 2004

• Room at the Inns

  September 16, 2004

• The Army of God

  August 12, 2004

• All Aboard the Pedo-Train!

  July 22, 2004

• Hide the Buggering Priests!

  July 8, 2004

• The Bawdy of Christ

  December 4, 2003

• Jesucristo con la Verga Visible

  December 4, 2003

• A Krummy Weekend for Diocese of Orange

  The pedophile time bomb that was Father Gus Krumm finally exploded locally this week, when a lawsuit filed in Orange County Superior Court alleged that Krumm and another priest molested a student at St. Simon and Jude in Huntington Beach during the early 1990s. All I can say is: about time. In 2004, I wrote about how Krumm kept getting shuffled from diocese to diocese after a stint at the now-shuttered St. Anthony's Seminary in Santa Barbara, a notorious Club Ped* for priests. This is the first

  June 14, 2009

• King of the County Pedophiles

  December 15, 2005

• The Damning Documents

  December 15, 2005