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October 10, 2007
"Friends of Monsignor John" Already Deletin'
Scroll for updates after the jump... A support group for embattled Orange diocese Monsignor John Urell isn't even a day old, and already site administrators are deleting messages critical of Urell and his peers' handling of the diocese's sex-abuse scandal. You won't know this from reading their web ... More >>
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November 19, 2007
Monday's Headlines & Surprises: Horny Priests and Eskimo kids
$50 million Eskimo Pie: Because its priests and missionaries sexually abused 110 Eskimo children from 1961 to 1987, the Jesuit order of the Roman Catholic Church has almost finalized a deal to pay $50 million to the victims, William Lobdell and Stuart Silverstein report in today’s LA Times. But � ... 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 >>
Columns
January 22, 2009
Letters From OC Weekly Readers
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 >>
Film
December 11, 2008
John Patrick Shanley's 'Doubt' Wags the Finger of Moral Relativism
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 >>
Columns
December 11, 2008
[¡Ask a Mexican!] Special Guadalupe Edition
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 >>
Culture
November 1, 2007
Act of Faith
Doubt asks deep, painful questions
Food
May 15, 2003
It Aint Easy Being Cheesy
Takin a dip with Berlin Jim at the Melting Pot
Features
February 8, 2007
Great Moments in Orange County Adultery
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September 14, 2006
Special Screenings
Movie of the week: Scarface
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March 16, 2006
Live Free Now
Ask me how: Talking taxes and trilaterals in Irvine
Culture
November 10, 2005
Earthly Pain
Less broke, more beauty
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June 2, 2005
May God have mercy on your soul.
Less broke, more beauty
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May 12, 2005
Take the Bishop Michael Driscoll Pedo-Quiz!
Less broke, more beauty
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April 7, 2005
A Moral, Abject Failure When It Mattered
Pope John Paul II, 1920-2005
News
March 3, 2005
Northern Exposure
By trashing Spitzer, Register protects GOP, Catholic Church
Columns
February 17, 2005
!Ask a Mexican!
By trashing Spitzer, Register protects GOP, Catholic Church
Columns
January 6, 2005
Diary of a Loud County
By trashing Spitzer, Register protects GOP, Catholic Church
Columns
December 2, 2004
Letters
By trashing Spitzer, Register protects GOP, Catholic Church
Culture
December 4, 2003
Tibet!
Now more exciting!
Film
November 13, 2003
Mel Gibsons Christ Complex
Is The Passion of Christ an autobiopic?
Columns
August 22, 2002
Diary of a Mad County
Is The Passion of Christ an autobiopic?
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April 6, 2000
Serra One Step From Drinking Holiday
Is The Passion of Christ an autobiopic?
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February 3, 2000
Coming Clean
Is The Passion of Christ an autobiopic?
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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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December 15, 2005
The Damning Documents
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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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 >>
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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 6, 2010
Are Tod Brown and William Levada Besties?
Brownie and Levada already know how to sport the cassock...One lesson I've learned in years of covering the Catholic Church sex-abuse scandal is that the more ludicrous the rumor or scenario, the more likely it's true. Bishops moving pedophile priests around to evade the law? True! Priests taking ... More >>
Blogs
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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April 17, 2010
Satan Calls Former OC Bishop Norman McFarland Back Home
McFarland: Now finding lodging in the Ninth Circle...Longtime Diocese of Orange Bishop Norman McFarland died yesterday, and more than a few people rejoiced because of his role in creating the see's sex-abuse scandal. McFarland wasn't as clumsy as current Bishop Tod D. Brown, as clueless as foundi ... More >>
Blogs
June 15, 2010
Ugo Allesina of Prego, Part One
Kimberly ValenzuelaOf all the Los Angeles-area airports, John Wayne has the best food within easy striking distance. The traffic at LAX prevents people from eating nearby; Burbank's airport is in an absolute desert of food, and Ontario is even worse. Long Beach has some good options, but if you'r ... 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
Columns
July 22, 2010
Letters From OC Weekly Readers
The Orange bishop's track record of covering up for sexual misconduct by priests didn't start here
Blogs
July 28, 2010
[UPDATED:] Benny Hinn and Paula White Deny Affair
SECOND UPDATE: Benny Hinn, End-Times Cultist? Click here for the details. UPDATE: Hinn's new message to followers: I am not having an affair and send me $2 million. (details at end of post) . . .Televangelist Benny Hinn, who resides behind gates in Dana Point and has a church and television studi ... More >>
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July 31, 2010
Why isn't Orange Bishop Tod D. Brown Fighting Anti-Immigrant Loons?
One of the few positive transformations in the Roman Catholic Church in the United States over the last half-century has been its increasingly Aztlanista tendencies. This trajectory was helped along in the late 1960s and 1970s by no less a priest than Roger Mahony, now cardinal of the Los Angeles ... More >>
Blogs
August 6, 2010
Five Reasons From Five Comics That Make Us Love Jonathan Hickman
Marvel Comics/Jim Cheung (left) and Gerald ParelIf you've been a regular reader of Panel Discussion, you've seen the name Jonathan Hickman pop up before, albeit briefly. I've mentioned him when it comes to praising the writer's work on such Marvel Comics titles as the Fantastic Four and Secret Wa ... More >>
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August 26, 2010
5 Fun Facts in Leaked Angels Documents
Tommy Craggs is having a helluva time revealing the financial secrets of the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim in "MLB Confidential" on Deadspin.com, thanks to leaked documents team officials have confirmed are the real deal.Major League Baseball and Angels' VP of Communications Tim Mead are not amu ... More >>
Culture
January 20, 2011
'Cult of the Ruin' Has a Past Tense and Present Purpose
UC Irvine's University Art Gallery's latest exhibit re-examines time gone by
Blogs
March 1, 2011
Boob War 2011: The Oscar Special Edition (Cleavage Pics After the Jump)
Have you ever wondered why the Academy Awards are held in late February? It stems from an agreement between the Vatican and the motion picture industry that allows Hollywood, from November through February, to gorge on cleavage like bed bugs on a hemophiliac, so long as the entirety of Tinseltown ... More >>
Blogs
April 1, 2011
Con Artist, Documentary on Controversial New York Scenester Mark Kostabi, Has Creative Roots in OC
KostabiMichael Sladek's fascinating documentary Con Artist is a New York story, using the much-maligned shenanigans of "business artist" Mark Kostabi to comment on fame, commerce, failure, success and desperation in the snooty art world. But this is a New York story as told by two artists who eme ... More >>
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April 26, 2011
[UPDATED with Charlie Sheen, Maid's BJ Chatter:] Lenny Dykstra's Spectacular Fall Continues with Fed and Local Crime Charges
UPDATE, APRIL 26, 11 A.M.: The lawyer for Lenny Dykstra is denying rampant media reports that Charlie Sheen bailed the embattled former Major League Baseball star out of jail. Meanwhile, the hits keep coming against the former New York Met and Philadelphia Philly facing federal fraud and loc ... More >>
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June 6, 2011
[UPDATED with LA County Bail Set at a Half Mil:] Lenny Dykstra's Spectacular Fall Continues
UPDATE, JUNE 6, 5:58 P.M.: Already looking at 80 years behind bars if convicted of the 13 counts against him in federal court, Lenny Dykstra today had another 25 criminal charges filed against him in Los Angeles County Superior Court.The former baseball star out of Garden Grove is facing 23 felo ... More >>
Culture
June 16, 2011
WTForever21.com Finds Out Its Muse is Forever Litigious
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Blogs
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 >>
Film
December 15, 2011
'Ghost Protocol' Features a Man on a Mission
Tom Cruise, Bankable Movie Star, lives another day
Blogs
January 12, 2012
Blase Bonpane, Legendary Toppler of Wally George's Desk, Returns to OC This Friday
Wal-ly Beater, Wal-ly Beater...Blase Bonpane, religious rebel and a renegade, has lived a life inspired by the prospect of peace in our world. Director of the Office of the Americas, weekly radio host of World Focus on KPFK 90.7FM Los Angeles, and author of numerous books, the tireless activist t ... More >>
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