Subject: Patrick Hennessey

• Stuck Inside of Memphis With the Catholic Blues Again

  Writing from Staxville, on the eve of delivering a lecture about ¡Ask a Mexican! at the University of Memphis... Yesterday, the law firm of Manly, McGuire & Stewart filed a contempt of court order against Orange Bishop Tod D. Brown, the latest salvo in the Jeff Andrade case. Manly and amigos are arguing that the Orange diocese purposefully whisked Monsignor John Urell to Canada to avoid finishing a deposition that he couldn't continue back in July after breaking down in tears. The diocese deni

  September 20, 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 settle four civil cases brought by women who were sexually abused as young girls between 1991 and 1999 by employees of the Diocese of Orange. Most of the abuse took place in the mid to late 1990s by sta

  October 5, 2007

• It's Dec. 10--Do You Know Where John Urell Is?

  Remember John Urell? Monsignor for the Catholic Diocese of Orange? Who covered up for pedophiles? Whose supporters continuously shot themselves in the foot? Who was whisked off to Canada to--take your pick--combat an "acute anxiety disorder" (according to the diocese) or to evade a deposition (says suing lawyers)? That guy? Well, it's December 10--and he should be back in town. So where is he?

  December 10, 2007

• Fiddlin' in St. Augustine

  October 11, 2007

• Letters

  "If Urell really were a shepherd for his flock, they—and not himself—would have been his main concern."
  

  October 4, 2007

• Bad Moves

  September 27, 2007