If he didn’t care yesterday … why such urgency today?

On April 5, The Wall Street Journal reported that: As the church’s most powerful official in Argentina, [Pope Francis] didn’t comply with a Vatican call to create guidelines for handling sexual-abuse allegations in the country. But then, in the next paragraph: On Friday, Pope Francis met with Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller, who heads the office…Continue reading If he didn’t care yesterday … why such urgency today?

Visiting priest arrested in Yuba City, Victims Respond

  Statement by Joelle Casteix of Newport Beach, SNAP Western Regional Director Read the news story here. Once again, innocent children pay the price because Bishop Stephen Blaire refused to do a simple background check on one of his priests. What is even more tragic about this case is that the arrested priest abused in a…Continue reading Visiting priest arrested in Yuba City, Victims Respond

Why you should skip the Los Angeles RECongress … forever

Because if you can’t take a five-time credibly accused priest predator off of your website, how do we know you can follow child safety guidelines?     This weekend in Anaheim, more than 40,000 people are descending on the Convention Center for the Los Angeles Archdiocese RECongress, billed as “the largest annual gathering of its…Continue reading Why you should skip the Los Angeles RECongress … forever