McKnight: The luckiest man in the sports section

Photo by Jennie Warren

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Not again...the Orange County Register planted another Valentine to Mater Dei boys' basketball coach Gary McKnight, this one longer than usual, hyped on the front page, and printed in the A section so non-sports fans can learn about his glory. The strangest line in the story? When reporter Damian Calhoun wrote McKnight "has weathered controversies involving an assistant coach."

Gee, I wonder which assistant coach THAT could be? Maybe it was Jeff Andrade, McKnight's former player at Ocean View High and MD assistant who had a thing for Catholic-school girls, got canned for it by Mater Dei officials in the one good move accomplished in the Monarchs' history, then was welcomed back by McKnight despite the explicit warning of the school president? You mean THAT controversy, Register editors? Why on Earth wouldn't you want parents to know that? Maybe because it would endanger your cozy relationship with McKnight? Inquiring minds want to know!

Bishop Brown: Does he take his lattes extra-frothy?

​Ever since the Catholic Diocese of Orange has employed boy-diddlers and girl-rapists, the official party line has always been this, a party line swallowed whole by its apologists: when it came to teenagers molested by its employees, it wasn't rape--it was a relationship. That's the shit diocesan lawyers and the rest of Bishop Tod D. Brown's flunkies used against the victims of Jeff Andrade, Eleuterio Ramos, Michael Harris, Tom Hodgman, and all of its pedophiles.

I guess Brownie is now the writing-style editor at the Orange County Register. Not only did reporter Jon Cassidy reveal a sex-abuse victim's name without their permission in a story published yesterday (the victim was molested while working at Starbucks as a 16-year-old), not only did Cassidy not speak to the victim's lawyer (Newport Beach-based John Manly, who has given the Orange diocese holy hell and likes the media spotlight like Brownie likes purple), but then Cassidy had the audacity to refer to the victim's ordeal as a "sexual relationship." Never mind that it's illegal in the state of California to have sex with anyone under 18. Never mind that the victim's perpetrator spent nearly six months in jail for his statutory rape. And never mind that the pervert was the victim's superior and plied her with drugs. According to Cassidy, it's a relationship.

WHAT A PENDEJO!

Hey, Jon: are you taking advice from Peter Callahan, too? Sorry, but what happened between the victim and her perp wasn't a relationship, IT WAS RAPE. Consensual relationships don't involve prison time, amigo. What a world we live in, where the Reg is copying the victim-sliming philosophy of the Orange diocese. Heckuva job, Brownie!

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The only OC creep who gets a bigger pass than McKnight is Bishop Brown...

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SO....Mater Dei High School boys' basketball coach Gary McKnight set another prep hoops record--he's now the winningest coach in California high school B-ball history--and the local press busted another nut reporting over his round renown. Surprisingly, even ESPN got into the mix, broadcasting the Monarchs' victory on its ESPNU channel and firing off a dispatch for one of its many websites.

Of course, none of them tell the truth about McKnight: how he not only protected his assistant, Jeff Andrade, after details emerged he had sex with Mater Dei students--in McKnight's office, even--and how McKnight let Andrade back onto Mater Dei's campus years after the rapes and even after the school's principal explicitly told him not to. It's not like these facts are difficult to find--Google "Gary McKnight," and one of my many stories on the subject pops up first. That McKnight continues to set records and receive accolades without people bringing up this sordid past is further proof Orange Bishop Tod D. Brown is the Devil--heckuva job, Brownie!

Heckuva job, Brownie!

​If you ever pay attention to apologists for the Catholic Diocese of Orange's sex-abuse scandal--you never should, but I'm just saying if God ever punishes you in that fashion--one of the points they'll repeat again and again is that most of the kiddie rapes and scandals happened long ago, long before Bishop Tod D. Brown came to town and cleaned up. After I stop laughing, I remind them that the biggest sin in the scandal isn't so much the rapes themselves, but the cover-up of the diocese's hierarchy, their absolute indifference to the scandal they wrought despite public shows to the contrary. Then, the apologists say I'm anti-Catholic, and more laughter ensues.

As this decade from hell closes, it's a perfect time to remember the Orange diocese's five worst, most callous transgressions pertaining to its sex-abuse scandal--and isn't it telling of how rotten the diocese is that none of them actually involves a sex crime? Heckuva job, Brownie! Here's the list, in order of vileness:

1. Bishop Brown's sex-abuse allegation: For most of this decade, Brownie has announced to anyone who'll listen that the Orange diocese under his watch was a transparent one, one forthcoming, truthful, and repentant. He even spent half-a-million bucks to make the point (see #3 on this list). All along, Brownie told no one that someone had lodged molestation allegations against him. His reasoning? This reality was "embarrassing," according to testimony he gave in a 2007 deposition. Tell that to Richard Delahunty, the priest Brown named in 2004 as being investigated for pedophilia before realizing the allegations were just that--allegations.

2. Gary McKnight invites a known rapist back to Mater Dei: Earlier this month, McKnight broke the record for most victories by a Southern California high school boys' basketball coach. None of the laudatory write-ups mentioned that earlier this decade, McKnight allowed his former assistant, Jeff Andrade, back on the Mater Dei campus--this despite the fact that Mater Dei officials had forced Andrade to resign in the 1990s for sexually violating a teenager, and despite those officials' insistence to McKnight that Andrade not be let on campus? Why is McKnight still coaching despite putting kids within the grasp of a sexual predator? That's right: because Mater Dei struck a deal with Satan long ago!
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Photo by Jennie Warren--remember when we snuck into Mater Dei's ridiculous gym for this shot, Jennie? Good times...

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Further proof God long ago decided to let Satan run the Diocese of Orange: Mater Dei High boys' basketball coach Gary McKnight is now the winningest coach in Southern California prep hoops history. His usual squads of suspicious transfers beating up on weak opponents notched the Round Mound of Inbound a victory earlier this week against Norwalk High.

Mater Dei students and alumni don't want to hear it, and that's why we'll say it in caps: MCKNIGHT LET A KNOWN STATUTORY RAPIST BACK ON CAMPUS AND PROTECTED HIS ASS. The links and proof are all here, but, hey: why harbor on the past? Coach McKnight keeps winning, and that makes it all okay! Congrats to Orange Bishop Tod D. Brown for not giving a shit about discipline in his see lest he draw the ire of Monarchs apologists--heckuva job, Brownie!

The actual St. Boniface would've gone Nazi on pedo-priests and their apologists...

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My family is a proud product of St. Boniface Church in Anaheim--my siblings got all their sacraments through Confirmation there (I was baptized at Our Lady of Guadalupe in SanTana but received the rest at San Bonifacio), and my sisters attended its now-shuttered school. So when I say the following, you know I say the truth: we LOVE our pedophile priests! John Lenihan (the man who gave me Communion) is the most notorious example, but we also harbored at least four more.

Part of St. Boniface's pedo-priest legacy is our insistence to let bygones be bygones and let rapists roam our aisles, and we'll continue that tradition tomorrow with the welcoming of Diocese of Sacramento Bishop Jaime Soto to help celebrate the parish's 150th anniversary. Soto, of course, never diddled kids during his time at the Orange diocese as either a priest or bishop, but His Eminence sure didn't mind when others did the deed. But it's okay--after all, Soto is a man of the cloth, as some pendejo wab lawyer once said before defriending me on Facebook. And deviant bishops are always welcome at the Orange diocese--right, acolytes of pervert Patrick Ziemann?

from Roman Catholic Blog...

​Okay, okay, okay: to have ever put hope in the Covenant with the Faithful--a 2004 PR trick by Bishop Tod D. Brown of the Catholic Diocese of Orange that swore to create a more transparent group of pedo-priests and their apologists but cost the county faithful nearly half a million dollars--was an exercise in stupidity. But the way Brownie and his crew continue to make a mockery out of its seven bullet points, placed near the entrance at all Orange diocese parishes, keeps getting more and more laughable with every passing year.

Consider the latest folly, found in a civil lawsuit filed in Santa Barbara Superior Court against a group of Franciscan friars that includes former Sts. Simon and Jude pedo-priest Gus Krumm. Buried in it is a fascinating passage involving Krumm and Michael Harvey, the current pastor at the Huntington Beach parish. Seems that last year, a former parishioner wanted to speak with Harvey about Krumm and unknown incidents that happened  while he terrorized Surf City.

Harvey did better than offer no comment--he wanted to make his comments legally disappear.
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Ziemann: Inflicted Hell, now receiving it...

​Sorry we're late to the party, but G. Patrick Ziemann--a teacher at Mater Dei during the early 1970s who went on to become an auxiliary bishop in Los Angeles and head bishop at the Diocese of Santa Rosa before resigning in disgrace for screwing up its finances and screwing a fellow priest--died late last month. Ziemann deserves a special spot in Hell, above Eleuterio Ramos but below founding Diocese of Orange Bishop William Johnson. The Archdiocese of Los Angeles paid out $2.8 million in civil claims alleging Ziemann molested three boys while a priest in the Los Angeles area, and Ziemann also allegedly molested an Orange County boy in a confessional booth during one of the many teen retreats he participated in during the 1990s.

But the real reason Ziemann deserves the lava treatment is Michael Harris, the notorious former Mater Dei and Santa Margarita High principal whom Orange Bishop Tod D. Brown has had to pay out millions for his boy-lover ways. From my long-ago article on the matter:

[In 2001], lawyers deposed [Ziemann] as part of a lawsuit against Harris by former Santa Margarita student Ryan DiMaria. During pretrial hearings, a seminarian revealed that in 1979 he complained to Ziemann--then at Our Lady Queen of Angels Seminary in Mission Hills--that Harris was molesting students at Mater Dei. Ziemann denied that such an exchange took place, but in a separate deposition for the trial, [former Orange bishop Norman] McFarland admitted knowing about the incident. When DiMaria's lawyer, [Newport Beach]-based John Manly, asked McFarland why he never pressed Ziemann on the matter, McFarland replied, "I simply don't recall calling him about that, and I don't know why I did not or should have or whatever."

Total pariah, right? So what did Orange Bishop Tod D. Brown do? Allow Ziemann's funeral services to be held at Orange's Holy Family Cathedral on Halloween!
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Kroll: Wonder if John Urell Ever Apologized to Her for Being an Ass...

​One of the main criticisms Catholic pedo-apologists have against the survivors that dare sue the Church in civil lawsuits boils down to this twisted logic: if the victims just care about exposing the truth, then why are they asking for money? Don't civil suits just show that they're really money-grubbers who wanted it as kids and teens?

This is the official line of the Diocese of Orange, of Bishop Tod D. Brown and his slop bucket of lawyers, one parroted by too many of the faithful. Thankfully, those survivors put their settlements to good use--to reconstruct shattered lives, both their own and others. It's the latter that Elaina Kroll is concerned most with. She is one of the lucky few Catholic Church molestation victims who not only one a civil settlement against the insults to Christ, she also saw her perp do time: Albert Lee Schildknecht, a former choir directory at St. Timothy in Laguna Niguel (home to pedo-apologist supreme John Urell) who plead guilty earlier this year to molestation but whom served jail time only after violating his probation.

With her settlement money, Kroll has started the Innocence Mission, a non-profit devoted to "the eradication of child sexual abuse throughout our society," per its mission statement. They're holding a fundraiser December 4, at the Disneyland Grand Californian Hotel, with entertainment provided by that enjoyable 1990s relic, the Royal Crown Revue Swing Orchestra. Also on the list: honors for Greatest Religion Reporter Ever William Lobdell, and the officers who broke the Jaycee Dugard kidnapping case. Tickets ain't cheap--$250--but know that your donation will help protect kiddies from perverts of all faiths.

I'm glad to see that prominent Catholic church sex-abuse victims advocate and Orange County resident/native Joelle Casteix is publicly criticizing the perverted director Roman Polanski and his apologists.They remind me of those ghouls, many Mater Dei High graduates, who offer every sort of excuse for an admitted rapist, who say forced sodomy was just a misunderstanding, who throw going-away parties for pedophiles, who prop up molesters with cushy jobs, who say the victim wanted it so that makes schtupping an underage teen okay, who give standing ovations to kiddie fiddlers.  Wait a minute: did Polanski ever work for the Diocese of Orange?

Straight up, folks: fuck Roman Polanski. Fuck his supporters. May they get the karmic equivalent of what Polanski's character did to Jake Gittes in Chinatown Yeah, Chinatown! It was a cool movie, right? That makes everything okay!.