Render Unto Rome (69 page)

  5.
See in particular Paul Lakeland,
The Liberation of the Laity: In Search of an Accountable Church
(New York, 2003).

  6.
Garry Wills,
Papal Sin
(New York, 2000), p. 190.

  7.
Eugene Kennedy,
The Unhealed Wound: The Church and Human Sexuality
(New York, 2001), p. 66.

  8.
Marco Politi, “The Church’s New Age of Dissent,”
The Tablet
, March 21, 2009.

  9.
Ibid.

10.
“MG Critical Path” study, no author or release date given.

11.
Avery Dulles, “What Distinguishes the Jesuits?”
America
, January 15, 2007.

12.
“ ‘Psalter of My Hours,’ the Work Plagiarized by Maciel,” Catholic News Agency, December 18, 2009.

13.
U.S. Federal Court, Minnesota District, case no. 0:04-CV-02895-RHK-AJB,
Sellors v. Legionaries of Christ et al.
, filed June 4, 2004,
http://www.mnd.uscourts.gov/
. See also Giselle Sainte Marie, “Gospel Charity Cuts Both Ways: Lifting the Veil on How the Legion Builds Their Kingdom: The Familia Saga,”
www.regainnetwork.org
.

14.
Albert Camus, “The Almond Trees,”
Lyrical and Critical Essays
(New York, 1968), p. 135.

15.
Jason Berry, “Legionary Founder Said to Father a Child,”
National Catholic Reporter
, February 3, 2010.

16.
U.S. District Court of Oregon, case no. CV 02 430 MO,
John Doe v. Holy See
.

CHAPTER 12
:
ANOTHER CALIFORNIAS

  1.
Jill Hodges, “Attacking Abuse: Lawyer Finds His Niche Suing Authority Figures in Abuse Cases,”
Minneapolis Star Tribune
, May 20, 1991.

  2.
Peter Slavin, “Jeff Anderson, Jousting with the Vatican from a Small Law Office in St. Paul,”
Washington Post
, April 19, 2010.

  3.
U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Division, case no. 10-CV-00346-RTR,
John Doe 16 v. Holy See
, April 22, 2010.

  4.
Laurie Goodstein, “Vatican Declined to Defrock U.S. Priest Who Abused Boys,”
New York Times
, March 24, 2010.

  5.
Kim Ode, “On a Crusade,”
Minneapolis Star Tribune
, April 26, 2010.

  6.
David Schimke, “True Believer,”
St. Paul City Pages
, April 16, 2003.

  7.
Tim Townsend, “Abuse Scandal Puts Victims’ Group Back in the Spotlight,”
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
, April 20, 2010.

  8.
Jason Berry,
Lead Us Not into Temptation
(New York, 1992), pp. 281–86, 371–73.

  9.
Daniel J. Wakin, “Catholic Priest Who Aids Church Sexual Abuse Victims Loses His Job,”
New York Times
, April 29, 2004.

10.
Mike Davis,
City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles
(New York, 2006), p. 360.

11.
Ibid., pp. 359–65. On Western Sequoia, see Ron Russell, “Taj Mahony,”
New Times
(L.A.), December 20, 2001.

12.
Msgr. Francis J. Weber,
Cathedral: Our Lady of the Angels
(Mission Hills, CA, 2004), p. 69.

13.
Steve Lopez, “The Amazing ‘Teflon Cardinal,’ ”
Los Angeles Times
, April 7, 2002.

14.
The testimony cited is drawn from Lopez, “The Amazing ‘Teflon Cardinal,’ ” unless noted otherwise.

15.
Testimony cited in Jason Berry, “Church in Crisis: Mahony, in Legal Battle, Insists Church Has Right to Secrecy,”
National Catholic Reporter
, March 18, 2005.

16.
Margaret Leslie Davis,
Dark Side of Fortune: Triumph and Scandal in the Life of Oil Tycoon Edward L. Doheny
(Berkeley, CA, 1998), p. 277.

17.
Msgr. Francis J. Weber,
A History of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles and Its Precursor Jurisdictions in Southern California, 1840–2007
(Los Angeles, 2007), pp. 9–11.

18.
George J. Sánchez,
Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture, and Identity in Chicano, Los Angeles, 1900–1945
(New York, 1993), p. 71.

19.
Davis,
City of Quartz
, pp. 330–31.

20.
Charles R. Morris,
American Catholic: The Saints and Sinners Who Built America’s Most Powerful Church
(New York, 1997), p. 258.

21.
Msgr. Francis J. Weber,
His Eminence of Los Angeles: James Francis Cardinal McIntyre
, vol. 1 (Mission Hills, CA, 1977), p. 237.

22.
Msgr. Francis J. Weber, “Historical Reflections,” in
Days of Change, Years of Challenge: The Homilies, Addresses, and Talks of Cardinal Timothy Manning
, ed. Francis Weber (Los Angeles, 1987), p. 107.

23.
Kevin Starr,
Coast of Dreams: California on the Edge, 1990–2003
(New York, 2006), p. 17.

24.
On Hawkes’s financial control, see Thomas J. Reese,
Archbishop: Inside the Power Structure of the Roman Catholic Church
(San Francisco, 1989), p. 190. How priests feared Hawkes is from a background interview, Los
Angeles, November 2009. On Hawkes’s probate, see Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, P702033, filed October 17, 1985.

25.
Los Angeles Archdiocese,
Report to the People of God
, February 17, 2004, lists Hawkes with two accusers. Demarco’s client makes a third. Terence McKiernan of
BishopAccountability.org
explains further: “The archdiocese no longer has the list on their site, though they pretend to—they deleted the list, and only post the introductory essay now, without saying that the Report is bowdlerized. See our brief explanation of this situation with links at:
http://www.bishopaccountability.org/AtAGlance/lists.htm
.”

26.
Weber,
Cathedral
, p. 102.

27.
Ibid., pp. 105–6.

28.
Joseph Claude Harris, “Paying for Parish Programs: Archdiocese of Los Angeles,” unpublished, July 2001.

29.
Manny Vega, conversations with the author, Los Angeles and Pasadena, June 2005; screening of videotape of Vega’s life prepared for settlement negotiations under the auspices of attorney Ray Boucher. Tom Kisken, “Officer Battles Personal Crime,”
Ventura County Star
, April 27, 2003, is an exceptional report.

30.
Berry, “Mahony in Legal Battle.” The quotation in question was from an earlier
Los Angeles Times
article. The legal narrative in this part of the chapter is drawn from the
National Catholic Reporter
coverage.

31.
Jeffrey Anderson, “Behind the Robes,”
L.A. Weekly
, March 18, 2003. He is no relation to the attorney.

32.
Glenn F. Bunting, Ralph Frammolino, and Richard Winton, “Archdiocese for Years Kept Accusations from Police,”
Los Angeles Times
, August 18, 2002.

33.
Larry B. Stammer, “One Church, Two Missions,”
Los Angeles Times Magazine
, August 25, 2002.

34.
Larry B. Stammer, “Mahony’s Top Chiefs All Resign,” October 31, 2002.

35.
Thomas P. Doyle, A.W.R. Sipe, and Patrick J. Wall,
Sex, Priests, and Secret Codes: The Catholic Church’s 2,000-Year Paper Trail of Sexual Abuse
(Los Angeles, 2006).

36.
On Stewart’s relationship with the archdiocese, see Ron Russell, “Taj Mahony,”
New Times
(Los Angeles), December 20, 2001.

37.
Berry, “Mahony in Legal Battle.”

38.
Jason Berry, “Telephone Interview with Cardinal Roger Mahony of Los Angeles on the Sexual Abuses in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles,” February 12, 2005, posted
National Catholic Reporter
, March 18, 2005, as a sidebar to “Mahony in Legal Battle.”

39.
Berry, “Mahony in Legal Battle.”

40.
Report to the People of God
, February 18, 2004, in
The Tidings
,
www.archdiocese.la.org
.

41.
Jean Guccione, William Lobdell, and Megan Garvey, “O.C. Diocese Settles Abuse Cases,”
Los Angeles Times
, December 3, 2004.

42.
This section on Levada is based on my reporting for a profile of the archbishop, “The Man Who Kept the Secrets,”
San Francisco Magazine
, September 2005.

43.
Ibid., See also “Sipe Reports XX,”
www.richardsipe.com
; Court of Appeal of California, Second Appellate District, Division Eight, B198136,
Doe v. Salesian Society
, filed January 29, 2008.

44.
William Lobdell and Jean Guccione, “A Novel Tack by the Cardinal,”
Los Angeles Times
, March 14, 2004.

45.
Berry, “Mahony in Legal Battle.”

46.
Ibid.

47.
Jason Berry, “Cracks in the Wall of the Curia,”
National Catholic Reporter
, May 10, 2010.

48.
Jason Berry, “How Fr. Maciel Built His Empire, Part 2,”
National Catholic Reporter
, April 12, 2010.

49.
John Spano, Paul Pringle, and Jean Guccione, “Church to Settle with 45 Accusers,”
Los Angeles Times
, December 2, 2006.

50.
John L. Allen Jr., “Sex Abuse Settlement, the Pope’s Visit and Ecumenism: Cardinal Mahony Speaks with NCR,”
National Catholic Reporter
, November 30, 2007.

51.
Joe Mozingo and John Spano, “$660-Million Settlement in Abuse Cases,”
Los Angeles Times
, July 15, 2007.

52.
The AIB loan is referenced in a sidebar box, credited to the archdiocese. See Rebecca Trounson, “Parishes May Help Pay Sex Abuse Tab,”
Los Angeles Times
, May 25, 2008.

53.
Weber,
Cathedral
, p. 227.

54.
Conor O’Clery, “Abuse Scandals Put Catholic Church in US in Cash and Manpower Crisis,”
Irish Times
, April 13, 2002.

55.
Ellie Hidalgo, “Archdiocese Outlines Financial Recovery Strategy,”
The Tidings
, March 14, 2008.

56.
United States Bankruptcy Court, Southern District of California, case no. 07-00939-LA 11,
In Re: The Roman Catholic Bishop of San Diego, a California Corporation Sole, Debtor
, Chapter 11, First Report of Expert R. Todd Neilson, CPA Pursuant to Appointment, dated April 30, 2007, pp. 165–66.

57.
Greg Moran and Mark Sauer, “Legal Experts Fault Bankruptcy Option,”
San Diego Union-Tribune
, September 10, 2007.

58.
Sandi Dolbee and Mark Sauer, “Judge’s Tears, Rebuke Close Case,”
San Diego Union-Tribune
, November 2, 2007.

59.
Trounson, “Parishes May Help Pay Sex Abuse Tab.”

CHAPTER 13
:
AMERICA AND THE VATICAN

  1.
Jeffrey Anderson, “Roger’s Nest,”
L.A. Weekly
, March 11, 2004. The Los Angeles journalist is no relation to the attorney profiled in the previous chapter.

  2.
Peter Borré, “Request for Mediation,” letter to the Reverend Monsignor Pietro Parolin, April 7, 2009.

  3.
Jerry Filteau, “Louisianans Face Long Recovery from Katrina, New Orleans Flooding,” Catholic News Service, August 31, 2005.

  4.
Will H. Coleman, “The French Market,” in Frank de Caro, editor, and Rosan Augusta Jordan, associate editor,
Louisiana Sojourns: Travelers’s Tales and Literary Journeys
(Baton Rouge, LA: 1998), pp. 89–91.

  5.
Randy J. Sparks, “ ‘An Anchor to the People’: Hurricane Katrina, Religious Life, and Recovery in New Orleans,” arranged and edited by Tracy Fessenden and Michael Pasquier, “After the Storm: A Special Issue on Hurricane Katrina,”
Journal of Southern Religion
, 2008,
http://jsr.fsu.edu/Katrina/FrontKatrina.htm
.

  6.
Peter Entell, director,
Shake the Devil Off
, Show and Tell Films, 2007. The documentary provides a poignant treatment of the protest Mass and the struggles at St. Augustine.

  7.
Peter Finney Jr., “Financial Recovery Continuing for Archdiocese,”
Clarion Herald
, September 4, 2010.

  8.
Bruce Nolan, “Catholic Church Quantifies Katrina Damage,”
Times-Picayune
, July 26, 2008.