Christianity

L.A. Pedophile Priests 'Dumped On' Latino Neighborhoods? Revealing Audio Unearthed

The L.A. Archdiocese not only knew about pedophile priests, but strategized about how to shuffle them around. KCET's "SoCal Connected" at 5:30 tonight will air its exclusive investigation into the scandal that has clouded the legacy of ex-Cardinal Roger Mahony. The station obtained exclusive, 1996 ... More >>

Joseph Pina, Sex-Scandal Priest, Went To L.A. School District Despite Archdiocese Warning

Our jaw dropped a little when a state-and-local professional standards board revealed that porn-star-turned-teacher Stacie Halas' adult career had been found out by two other school districts before a third appeared to end her stint in California public classrooms. Well, it happens. KCET tonight i ... More >>

Nakoula Basseley Nakoula Behind Innocence of Muslims? Film Had L.A. Permit, Production

Yesterday we asked if the person or people behind the incendiary film Innocence of Muslims were religious zealots. The answer might be yes. The San Gabriel Valley Tribune broke the news last night that the permit for the flick's production was taken out by a Duarte group called Media for Christ:

Father Jose Luis Cuevas, Long Beach Priest, Charged With Sexual Battery on Church Grounds

The latest sex scandal and PR nightmare for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles comes by way of northern Long Beach, near Compton: Father Jose Luis Cuevas, 67, the longtime head priest at St. Athanasius Church, is being charged with "nine counts of sexual assault" for years of allegedly m ... More >>

Charity Comedy Night

We Have a Pope Review

Dan Deacon - Echoplex 10th Anniversary Party - 12-01-11

Dan Deacon Echoplex 10th Anniversary Party 12-1-11 Dan Deacon has built his reputation on his live shows, wild messes of frenetic dancing, comedic theatrics, and audience participation, all powered by the Baltimore-based artist's electro-pop. Last night, at the Echo's 10th Anniversary Party, Deacon ... More >>

China: Insights

Sex, Thugs and Catholic Rage

Oscar winner excavates lost, hilariously offensive labor of love

CAN I GET A WITNESS?

AIDS Activist Richard Zaldivar Puts Archbishop Jose Gomez on Notice

AIDS activist Richard Zaldivar​AIDS activist Richard Zaldivar put Los Angeles Archbishop Jose Gomez on notice the other day -- firmly, yet respectfully demanding that the church play a more vigorous role in preventing the spread of HIV/AIDS in the Latino community. "Roughly 70 percent of our ... More >>

Prop. 8 Film Director Reed Cowan Talks With L.A. Weekly

Film director Reed Cowan​Just a few days before L.A. Gay Pride weekend, Reed Cowan, a TV journalist in Miami, talked with L.A. Weekly about his superb documentary on Proposition 8 that was a hit at the Sundance Film Festival and now opens in theaters across the country on June 18 -- two days ... More >>

Prop 8 Movie: Dustin Lance Black on Villaraigosa, Arizona and Gay Marriage

​ That documentary about the Mormon church's nefarious (and successful) plot to outlaw gay marriage in California, 8: The Mormon Proposition, had its LA premiere Tuesday night at the Egyptian Theater in Hollywood. The film, which juxtaposes the horror stories of gay Mormons with the revelation ... More >>

Will Cardinal Mahony Hurt the Cooley Campaign?

For months, Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley, a moderate Republican seeking the GOP nomination for California Attorney General, has been taking hits from his conservative rivals during a hard-hitting primary race (see the current issue of L.A. Weekly).Los Angeles County D.A. Steve C ... More >>

Cardinal Mahony Blasts Arizona's 'Dreadful' Immigration Law

Is Cardinal Roger Mahony, the archbishop of Los Angeles, getting in a few last swings before he's forced into retirement in the spring of 2011?Cardinal Roger Mahony​Mahony wrote a blistering post on his blog Sunday morning, saying that the "Arizona legislature just passed the country's most retrog ... More >>

Prop 8 Movie Exposes Mormon Meddling

​ Reed Cowan used to be a Mormon missionary, with, he says, "knowledge of Mormon strategy at the highest levels." Now he's an activist against the Mormon church, working to out what he sees as the Church's violation of civil rights against gays. When his documentary 8: The Morman Proposition p ... More >>

Queer Town: Openly Gay Episcopal Priest Closer to Confirmation

Religious types around the world are closely watching the confirmation process of the Rev. Canon Mary Douglas Glasspool, a lesbian who serves in the Episcopal Church's Diocese of Los Angeles.The Rev. Mary D. Glasspool​As noted on Queerty.com, Glasspool was elected in December to become an assistan ... More >>

Tinsel Town Never Forgived

Lesbian Ascends As Top Leader Of L.A. Episcopalian Church (And The Archbishop Isn't Too Happy)

Rev. Mary Glasspool​The Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles over the weekend elected openly gay Rev. Canon Mary Glasspool as its assistant bishop, a move that has raised the eyebrows of the church's spiritual leader, the Archbishop of Canterbury. "That decision will have very important implicati ... More >>

Queer Town: Cardinal Mahony's Dizzying Post-Prop. 8 Spin

Google alerts can be a wonderful thing, and this morning it delivered Cardinal Roger Mahony's post-Prop. 8 spin a few days after November 4. As the Catholic leader of the Los Angeles Archdiocese, Mahony sent out his official take on the Proposition 8 victory to parishes throughout L.A. County.  ... More >>

Queer Town: Cardinal Mahony's Double-Speak on Prop. 8

Cardinal Roger Mahony, head of the archdiocese of Los Angeles, must be fearing some kind of backlash over his quietly active role in the passage of Proposition 8. This weekend, in The Tidings, an archdiocese newsletter, Mahony and the bishops of L.A. try to console "homosexual Catholics" with a kind ... More >>

The Long March to the Mormon Temple

It was a little before ten o'clock on Wednesday evening, the day after Proposition 8 appeared to be approved by the voters of California, when Levi Jackman Foster arrived at the Los Angeles Mormon Temple in Westwood. He was 22-years-old, gay, and angry. Foster, a handsome blond with short hair and a ... More >>

Thousands Predicted To Attend Fallen SWAT Officers Funeral

Thousands of mourners and a swarm of media are expected at Friday morning's funeral for fallen Los Angeles Police Department SWAT Officer Russel Simmons, who was shot to death on February 7 in a horrific shootout in the San Fernando Valley. LAPD officials are predicting an overflow crowd and one of ... More >>

Mahony's Tainted Legacy

Many priests’ sex crimes will stay secret, but now some victims can rest

Brigham Young at Heart

Steven Fales’ Mormon memoir

After the Rapture

Interactive spiritual warfare in Left Behind: Eternal Forces

Drunk on that Malibu Breeze

The Passion of the Christ: The Prequel

Conception far from immaculate in Hardwicke’s Nativity

Devils in Disguise

A pedophile priest and his pious protectors

Critics' Picks

If you see only seven films at this year’s LAFF, make it these

A Prayer Denied

Tensions over youth and money tear asunder a Hollywood church

Blessed by the Devil

Orange’s dirty deal threatens to brush away the priest scandal

Turn That Smile Into a Brown

How the Orange bishop put the deal together

Jesus and the Patriots

What has right-wing America done to Christianity?

The Ballad of Mel and Jesus

Christ, you know it ain't easy

Blessed by the Times

Inside one of the newsroom deals to go soft on the man in the red robe

Criminals of the Heart

Road kills and clerical errors

Letters

Monumental Theater

How you say — “horns of dilemma”?

Divine Suicide

Jack Miles goes down with God

Love! Valour! Crucifixion!

The Gospel according to Terrence McNally

Desert Saints and Sinners

The ghosts of Utah’s Mountain Meadows Massacre

Galleria

Tim Hawkinson, Charles LaBelle, John Divola, Tim Ebner, Shirley Tse, more

Comedy of Terrors

Fanatics take the stage at Moving Arts

Hymn & Her

Modern devotional music, Virgin voices

Oh and Happy Thanksgiving if I Don't See You

1983 Timeline

91 Timeline

Local anti-war groups struggle to mobilize opposition