Gustavo Arellano has dug up further evidence that Red-faced County blog editor Matt/Jubal Cunningham’s buddy John Urell was an even bigger pig than we thought. He played a much bigger role in covering up the actions of his pederast priests than anyone knew, according to new information that Gustavo dug up.
Here are a few excerpts from Gustavo’s latest Navel Gazing post about Urell and his twisted amigos:
Plaintiff’s attorney V. James DeSimone took the deposition of a previous Lyons victim (the Weekly doesn’t reveal the name of sex-abuse victims without their consent) whose younger brother and himself were molested by the pedo-priest at St. John the Baptist in Costa Mesa in the late 1970s. In 1994, the two brothers contacted Urell to speak about their abuse and ask that the diocese dump Lyons.
Urell met with the brothers at Gisler Park in Costa Mesa. The victim testified under oath that Urell told the two that they “were telling lies,” that the victims were trying to “deface” the church and “hurt” Lyons. “Goddamn it, let’s get on” with forgetting the episode, Urell told the violated brothers.
Infuriated, the brothers then set up a meeting the following year with then-Bishops Norman McFarland and Michael Driscoll, in which the heads of the Orange diocese told the brothers that “they were going to take care what needed to be taken care of.” Their solution? Send Lyons off to the St. Luke’s Institute, a notorious haven for pedo-priests that counts as alumni Michael Harris and Eleuterio Ramos. Although McFarland and his hierarchy assured the brothers Lyons would be gone, he returned after eight months as if nothing had happened.
The two brothers would go on to be part of the $100 million in settled sex-abuse cases that Tod D. Brown signed off on in 2005. Urell, of course, would famously crack for the guilt he felt destroying so many lives–yet he still has a job. Let’s see the Friends of Monsignor John try to spin this latest Urell revelation…
Art,
Don’t be silly.
Matt is busy preparing his report on the Bush violations/invalidation of the Posse Comitatus Act (He’ll have to look that one up before his feeble reply) Yeah right another convient omittance on the RFCB.
If this latest example of the Churches enabling is’nt blatant enough, I don’t know what will be.
I heard our (Matt and mines) well meaning but way out of touch priest ask the congregation Sunday “Why do Gays think the Catholic Church hates them?” It was all I could do not to emabarass my teenage kids and go into an extended explanation.
Duplo, I don’t know if the Catholic Church hates gays (how many of their own priests would be included?), but it sure seems that they want to deprive gays of their civil rights.
Folks:
There is a big difference between the Catholic Church and the people who are running the Catholic Church. I would be careful when you say “Catholic Church” and then proceed to slander everyone in it. Personal opinions are one thing. I am a Catholic and what has happened over the years has been devastating to me. I know many of the people involved in the scandals that have taken place. It has damaged their credability with me, but not my faith. Perhaps the third secret of Fatima, that the Church kept to themselves all these years, and they gave their interpritation of it has unfolded. The damage that these human beings have done to so many souls is intolerable. I only wish that someone would come forward and spill their guts out. This is no time to hide behind the seperation of church and state or the sactity of confession. These men will one day have to answer to God. What they have done to his church is not forgivable in my eyes. A mortal sin is bad enough. I don’t think they have come up with a name for the sin that they have committed. So many people have lost their faith in God. I believe this was the part of the third secret that Mary gave to those three children in Fatima. So many good people have left. The church knew about it and still could not stop it. I will keep my faith, but for those who have used the church for their own self gratification, they will answer to the Lion of Judah.
John Urell is a family member of mine and the things people are saying about him are stupid and ridiculous. Nobody in their right mind, who knows him, would accuse him of these false charges. People are just tring to make their lives more interesting by ruining the lives of others.
LIES!
It was Bishop McFarland’s doing. Monsignor John was obligated to obey. Had he known then what he knew now, he wouldn’t have done it.
He reconciled with the man who ruined his LIFE, but that won’t stop the abuse being directed at him. His soul is BROKEN because of this crap. There WILL be justice in the hereafter for this!