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January 5, 2007
Pilfering Peter's Pence
If you stuffed a few bucks into Salvation Army kettles this past holiday season, there's good news-- it's very likely your dollars (or coins, if you're a cheap bastard) found their way to wherever General Booth's soldiers intended they should go. The New York Times reports: The Salvation Army is wid ... More >>
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January 24, 2007
Slack jawed, Hounddog, and Mr. Donohue (not) at the movies
If there's one thing OC Weekly has in plentiful supply, it's Catholics of varying stripes-- devout, cafeteria, lapsed, vigorously lapsed, potential anti-pope-- with colorful and occasionally bizarre stories from their contacts with Holy Mother Church and its numerous franchises and subsidiaries. Fr ... More >>
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June 30, 2007
LAFF 2007: Westside Ain't the Best Side
Friday at the fest was a little bit different -- all the interesting-looking films were playing at the Landmark Westside, that new fancy art-house 12-plex at the Westside Pavilion. Parking there is free, unlike in Westwood, where everything else is happening. The trade-off you make is that beer is n ... More >>
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July 25, 2007
Context-Free Reportering Courtesy of the Register
It's always a guilty pleasure to see a new Orange County Register reporter--usually fresh from college--write a story in which the guy (or cute gal) has no clue about what's in his face. The latest example occurred today, in a piece by one Sean Emery, about the continued restoration of Mission San J ... More >>
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September 13, 2007
Weekly Story on Bishop Brown Pedophile Allegation Proven Right
Five months ago, OC Weekly's Gustavo Arellano broke the news that despite his promises of complete public accountability on the Catholic Church sex scandals, Bishop Tod Brown himself continued to hide accusations that he molested a 12-year-old boy in the 1960s. According to subsequent court transcr ... 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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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 >>
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October 8, 2007
Bishop Brown Still Doesn't Get It
Pick up this newspaper this Thursday, when this reporter will have a more in-depth take on the Orange diocese's settling four more sex-abuse cases for about $7 million. In the meanwhile, allow your humble servant to rail about the latest foot-in-mouth case of Orange Bishop Tod D. Brown. Today, Asso ... 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 >>
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April 21, 2008
Orange Diocese Dimwit of the Month...
**Updated, with new material at the bottom... ...Is actually the dimwit from last month: Father Christopher Heath of St. Edward the Confessor in Dana Point. To mark Pope Benedict XVI's meeting with the sex-abuse victims of his priests, Heath wrote a post on his blog where he made this off-hand but ... More >>
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October 1, 2008
Bishop Brown Invites Pedo-Apologist Bishop to Deliver Red Mass Homily
In a county where ostentatious pomp and circumstance is the rule of the day, few events are more despicable than the Red Mass, an annual event held by the Diocese of Orange where Bishop Tod D. Brown virtually guarantees no prosecution for his pedo-priests by honoring the entire legal system--judges, ... More >>
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November 11, 2008
Hate Pedo-Priests, Catholics? Then Don't Tithe This Sunday
Had lunch at Norm's in SanTana yesterday with Tucson resident. Frank Douglas, who writes Voice from the Desert, a blog regarding the Catholic Church's sex-abuse scandal. He was in Southern California to hold a press conference regarding a new effort by the faithful to get the Church hierarchy out of ... More >>
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February 4, 2009
The Evilest Man in Southern California: Tod Tamberg, LA Archdiocese Spokeshole
I've rarely covered the sex abuse scandal up the 5 Freeway at the Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles, because--hello!--LA is LA and Orange County is it. But a scummy incident that happened last Wednesday warrants the attention of all naranjeros and good Catholics.Then, sex-abuse survivors held a pr ... More >>
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February 12, 2009
Did Denis Lyons' Attorney Inadvertently Admit His Client is a Pedophile?
Yesterday, we wrote about how the Diocese of Orange is using a laughable argument to try and keep secret personnel files on pedo-priest Denis Lyons in a recent civil suit. Unsurprisingly, Lyons' lawyers also filed a brief for the same purpose using the same tactic of Orange Bishop Tod D. Brown: that ... 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 1, 2009
A Look at the Orange Diocese's Previous Head Aztlanistas
Why is this man smiling?I wish I could say it is an April Fools' joke that the Orange County Hispanic Bar Association is going through with its reception for newly ordained Catholic Diocese of Orange Bishop Cirilo Flores despite him never quite getting around to denouncing or disciplining pedo-pries ... More >>
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December 11, 2008
Fun With Nuns
Sister’s Christmas Catechism
News
May 29, 2008
The Catholic Diocese of Orange's History Book Is Pretty-and Pretty Pathetic
Sister’s Christmas Catechism
News
October 11, 2007
Jane C.R. Doe Speaks
An Exclusive Interview with Jeff Andrade’s victim
Music
February 11, 1999
For Christ's Sake
The OC Supertones, the Pope and the rise of the new Christian rock
Features
February 8, 2007
Great Moments in Orange County Adultery
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Film
November 2, 2006
Devils in Disguise
A documentary portrait of a pedophile preist and his pious protectors
News
October 12, 2006
Gloria in Exclusion Deo
Why does Orange bishop Tod Brown worry about a boring Latin Mass?
News
December 15, 2005
King of the County Pedophiles
The life, death and final escape of Eleuterio Ramos
Unknown
May 26, 2005
The Sins of the Father
While Catholic priests raped Orange County children, Pope John Paul II looked the other way
Unknown
April 7, 2005
A Moral, Abject Failure When It Mattered
Pope John Paul II, 1920-2005
News
March 31, 2005
Deal of the Century
The LA-OC Pedophile Priest Swap
Columns
March 3, 2005
Diary of a Mad County
The LA-OC Pedophile Priest Swap
Film
August 21, 2003
Dirty Laundry
Peter Mullans The Magdalene Sisters
Film
February 6, 2003
Secrets and Lies
The cleric who turned a blind eye
Columns
February 3, 2000
Coming Clean
The cleric who turned a blind eye
Film
May 14, 2009
'Angels & Demons' Is Holy Crap, But Not Entirely Un-Fun
The cleric who turned a blind eye
Blogs
May 18, 2009
Reminder: Pedo-Priest Apologists to be Honored This Friday at Mission SJC
Just a reminder to folks that this Friday evening, at Mission San Juan Capistrano's Basilica, Orange Bishop Tod D. Brown will bestow some of his nearest and dearest pedo-priest apologists with papal honors, a ceremony that proves Pope Benedict XVI is still clueless about too much and that Brown and ... More >>
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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 >>
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June 16, 2009
What Do Pope, Larry Flynt, Mission Viejo Shoppers Have in Common?
Media reports that as many as 16 actors and actresses in the adult entertainment industry recently tested positive for HIV have prompted new calls for legislation requiring condom use in all porn videos shot in California. Opponents to condom use include the multi-billion dollar adult entertainment ... More >>
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November 23, 2009
More Proof OC Diocese's Covenant with the Faithful is a Sham
from Roman Catholic Blog...Okay, okay, okay: to have ever put hope in the Covenant with the Faithful--a 2004 PR trick by Bishop Tod D. Brown of the Catholic Diocese of Orange that swore to create a more transparent group of pedo-priests and their apologists but cost the county faithful nearly hal ... More >>
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April 1, 2010
Breaking: Orange Bishop Tod D. Brown Announces Retirement; Pope Benedict XVI Picks OC Native as Replacement
Heckuva job, Brownie!In a surprise announcement this morning, Catholic Diocese of Orange Bishop Tod D. Brown announced he would retire at the end of the year."I have enjoyed my time in Orange County, but it is time to move on," the 73-year-old head of Orange County's 1.1 million Catholics announc ... More >>
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April 3, 2010
Another Local Boy Done Pedo-Priest Apologist Good: Cardinal William Levada
Levada: Brownie's pal in the Vatican...As the world just barely begins to realize that the Catholic Church is infested from the bottom to the top with pedophile apologists, one name has come to the forefront besides Pope Benedict XVI: Cardinal William Levada.He's the Prefect of the Congregation o ... More >>
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April 5, 2010
Two More OC Connections to the Vatican's Current Pedophile Scandal
Trupia: How many boys in OC did he molest?First in a three-part series this week on Orange County's connections to the "current" pedophilia scandal plaguing the Vatican. Nothing too earth-shattering--just connecting some dots--because I'm saving the good stuff for the near future. I'm warning you ... More >>
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April 10, 2010
Jaime Soto Gets Punked by Pope Benedict XVI!
Wonder if Soto is still smiling...SO...the media is going gaga over the successor to Archdiocese of Los Angeles Cardinal Roger Mahony: Diocese of San Antonio Archbishop Jose Gomez, who's a pedo-protector himself. The Orange County Register did one of its classic county barometer pieces where it g ... More >>
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April 15, 2010
Forget Arresting the Pope--What About John Urell?
Urell: Wanted for crimes against humanity--one can only wish...Sloppy drunkard Christopher Hitchens and wacky atheist Richard Dawkins made news recently because they want Pope Benedict XVI arrested when His Eminence visits Great Britain in September on account of the pontiff's pedo-protecting way ... More >>
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May 13, 2010
Bishop Tod Brown Asks Pope for Five More Years to Further Embarrass OC Diocese
Brownie: Just leave us be already!The Catholic Church mandates that its bishops retire at age 75. Most bishops accept this rule, but those who don't must write a letter to the pope asking to postpone their retirement.It's the latter scenario that Orange County Catholics must face, as Diocese of O ... More >>
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June 22, 2010
Orange Bishop Tod Brown Wrote Letter of Recommendation for Pedo-Priest While Head of Boise Diocese
In 1990, then-Diocese of Boise, currently Diocese of Orange Bishop Tod D. Brown drafted a letter of recommendation on behalf of Father Ruben Idalio Garcia so that the former Boise priest could officially join the Archdiocese of Tijuana. "I am happy to recommend Fr Garcia for service" in Tijuana ... 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
Blogs
October 2, 2010
Priest Blesses Surf City Waves Sunday
One day at band camp, this kid was shredding at Bolsa Chica when he slipped off his board and yelled, "Jesus Christ." So, it is not without precedence that a priest from the Roman Catholic Diocese of Orange will wade into the waters near Huntington Beach Pier Sunday morning to bless the waves.
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December 15, 2010
Orange Bishop Tod D. Brown Gets Company Formed for His Proposed Cathedral Suspended by Franchise Tax Board
Diocese of Orange Bishop Tod D. Brown must be loving his holidays. Despite getting exposed as a pedophile apologist again and again, he's still the head of the second-largest Catholic diocese west of the Mississippi. Despite the building downturn, he's still pushing forward with plans to build hi ... More >>
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September 19, 2011
[UPDATED with Clarification:] Oscar D. Perez Perez, Iglesia Antigua Católica Bishop, Accused of Lewd Acts with Boys
UPDATE, SEPT. 19, 2:15 P.M.: Bishop Oscar D. Perez Perez, who faces up to 60 years to life in state prison for alleged sex crimes involving two 11-year-old boys, met the victims though his Iglesia Antigua Católica congregation and not St. George's Parish of Laguna Hills.Iglesia Antigua Católica ... More >>
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November 22, 2011
Does the Vatican Think the Crystal Cathedral is Fugly?
Sure, so Diocese of Orange Bishop Tod D. Brown thinks he scored a coup by purchasing the Crystal Cathedral from the Schuller clan. But the move isn't being universally celebrated by conservative Catholics, many whom long derided the Crystal Cathedral as the antithesis of Catholic church beauty an ... More >>
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December 9, 2011
Catholic League Bashes Gustavo for Pedo-Priest Articles; Gustavo Responds!
Donohue: Lace-curtain IrishThe Catholic League always struck me as one of those antiquated organizations--like the Iowa clubs of Southern California that held those cool picnics in Long Beach decades ago, or the Grand Army of the Republic--that might've had a place and cause at some point in o ... More >>
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January 4, 2012
Cirilo Flores, Ineffective Diocese of Orange Auxiliary Bishop, to Leave for Diocese of San Diego
FloresThe era of Cirilo Flores--just named coadjutor bishop of the Diocese of San Diego--is ending the same way it started: with people trying to remember who he was.Flores joined the Diocese of Orange in 2009 as an auxiliary bishop, really just filling the token Mexi bishop seat for head pedo-pr ... More >>
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