The California Bishops Conference thought “it” was all over in 2007 … The Golden State, chiefly forgotten since the 2007 $660 million settlement against the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, has been overshadowed lately by a devastating grand jury report in Philadelphia, large civil child sex abuse settlements in Delaware and the Pacific Northwest, and the…Continue reading The California Clergy Sex Abuse Powder Keg

The American people don’t wax poetic about the career of Richard Nixon and ignore Watergate. And we can’t do the same thing here.

Or: Lay review boards: Cover them in crap and keep them in the dark. Welcome to mushroom farming, Catholic style: the “lay review board.” What is a lay review board?  Well, in the United States, reviews boards were installed in every diocese – as well as a national review board – by the US Conference of…Continue reading Worldwide Mushroom Farming

And it’s not just because I am quoted here by Adam Dodd.

I think of myself as a fiction writer and an opera singer FIRST, then an advocate.  (Obviously, I’m not that good at the first two, but I think big); I love my soap opera  (All My Children, FYI); I have raised complaining to an art form; Waiting tables was an awesome job; I am one…Continue reading A few things you may not know about me: