It’s not surprising that new Orange County Bishop Kevin Vann has put the Marywood Center up for sale. The 15-acre site (sitting on prime property in the swanky hills above the City of Orange) is redundant now that the ink is dry on the diocese’s purchase of the Crystal Cathedral (now Christ Cathedral) in Garden…Continue reading Bishop Vann puts Marywood up for sale: Secrecy contract included!
It’s not like he stole money or anything … because then he would have gone to jail AND been excommunicated. Eleven years after the U.S. Bishops’ Conference promised to “Mak[e] prompt and effective response to allegations; Cooperat[e] with civil authorities; and Disciplin[e] offenders,” we are offered this charming nugget from the New Jersey Star-Ledger: Newark archbishop allows…Continue reading Zero Tolerance is for the little people
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?
I’m not good at predictions. If I were, I’d be in Vegas and this blog would be a money-generating machine. Despite this failing, I’ve been asked a lot by the media what I think of the new pope, his record, what I expect to see in the next few months. So I made a…Continue reading My first week to-do list for Francis I
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