Roman Catholicism

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 >>

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 >>

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Sinead O'Connor's Most Memorable Moments

Sinead O'Connor is still making headlines, 20 years into her career. Having battled everything from the Catholic Church to drug addiction, the Irish icon remains beloved and despised. Though nothing compares to her pop stardom of the early '90s (har har), we're nonetheless psyched for her shows at t ... More >>

Pope Sends 'Historic' First Tweet (VIDEO)

news.vaDon't strain a knuckle there, champ.​Was it something about the visit of modern-minded Los Angeles Archbishop Jose H. Gomez, currently in Vatican City for to receive a special wool pallium, that inspired Pope Benedict XVI to warble out his first Tweet, via Twitter for iPad, this afterno ... More >>

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Cardinal Roger Mahony Vilified for Cleansing 'Predator Priests' List of Names from His L.A. Archdiocese Web Site

Cardinal Roger Mahony​With Cardinal Roger Mahony getting ready to retire from the Roman Catholic Los Angeles Archdiocese, his eminence is pulling some strange, ill-conceived moves again, now refusing to maintain an updated list of sexually abusive priests on the archdiocese's web site. The ... More >>

Sex, Thugs and Catholic Rage

Oscar winner excavates lost, hilariously offensive labor of love

Cardinal Roger Mahony Slams Prop. 8 Decision

Cardinal Roger Mahony​On his blog on Wednesday, Cardinal Roger Mahony, who leads the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, slammed U.S. District Court Judge Vaughn Walker for overturning Proposition 8, the 2008 ballot measure that took away the existing right of gays and lesbians to legally marry in Ca ... More >>

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 >>

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 >>

Lawsuit Alleges Cardinal Roger Mahony Covered-Up Molestation Claim

Cardinal Roger Mahony.​A new lawsuit against the Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles alleges that Cardinal Roger Mahony built a "conspiracy of silence" that kept church officials addressing claims that a parishioner who was 12 at the time was being molested regularly. The victim, now 27, stat ... 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 >>

Pope Names Texas Latino To Succeed Cardinal Mahony

​Pope Benedict XVI named Archbishop Jose Gomez of San Antonio to succeed Cardinal Roger Mahony as head of the Los Angeles Archdiocese, putting the Texan in line to become the highest-ranking Latino Catholic church leader in the United States. The Los Angeles Archdiocese made the announcement ... More >>

Has Cardinal Roger Mahony's Successor Been Named?

​That's what Thomas Peters, a Washington, D.C.-based blogger, is claiming in a recent post. Peters says that Cardinal Roger Mahony has approved the selection of a coadjutor bishop who would succeed him as Archbishop of Los Angeles when Mahony hits the retirement age of 75 next year:Some of the fac ... More >>

Prop. 8 Priestess Wrote Screeds Against Gays & Vatican

Brenda Lee, the self-described "Catholic priestess" from Anaheim, had press credentials to be in the presidential media area near Air Force One today. She had come to present a letter to President Obama urging him to take a stand for traditional marriage. She could have saved herself the time and tr ... More >>

Angels & Demons: Holy Crap

Da Vinci Code sequel has a need for speed

Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

Dem on Dem Payback State Assembly Speaker Karen Bass (D-L.A.) disciplined three members of her party for not voting to put spending limits on the ballot -- part of a key compromise Democrats made to finally pass a budget with Republicans. Stripped of their committee chairmanships were Black Caucus l ... 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 >>

Queer Town: The Catholic Power Play to Ban Gay Marriage

Cardinal Roger Mahony, the Roman Catholic leader of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, has been keeping somewhat of a low-profile in the battle over same sex marriage in California, but he can't keep his name out of the headlines any longer. One of the most powerful and influential Catholic priests in ... More >>

Mahony's Tainted Legacy

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

the Semantics of Suicide Aid in Dying

God, PR and the right to die in California

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

Crazed Catholics

Immigrant Women Speak About Leaving the Church

Virgin / Whore

The Catholic Church and women — can’t live with ’em, can’t live without ’em

Stalino-Papism

The Vatican goes with its chief inquisitor

The Mortal Storm

The Deaths of the 20th Century

Cardinal Untruths

Mahony’s testimony in sex scandal clashes with earlier statements and reality

Blessed by the Devil

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

Veil of Secrecy Torched

Judge’s order could bring prosecutors closer to the man in red

Pursuing the Vatican Vote

Bush woos John Paul II

Roger’s Nest

So what keeps this cardinal from flying away?

Smoke-filled Churches

The Ballad of Mel and Jesus

Christ, you know it ain't easy

Cardinal Sins

How the Catholic Church, legal community and PR machine are conspiring to protect Roger Mahony

Blessed by the Times

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

Dear God!

Is the cathedral desecrating the Virgin of Guadalupe?

Behind the Robes

Pondering the secrets Cardinal Mahony might hold about the Catholic sex scandal

The Sinner Behind the Saint

Juan Diego got his halo with help from the worldly and shrewd Bishop Cepeda

A Cardinal Conspiracy

Renewed interest in an unsolved 1993 killing in Guadalajara

The Mission Is on a Mission

And Cardinal Mahony has been its target for years

Demons on Broadway

Miracles. Exorcism. Catholic-bashing. Going for broke in the Universal Church.

No Borders

Making and selling The Other Conquest

Then This Priest Says. . .

The Pope Trope

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