ORANGE (CA)
The Worthy Adversary
Posted by Joelle Casteix on September 20, 2012
From my SNAP statement:
Today, the Diocese of Orange has announced the retirement of Orange County, California Bishop Tod D. Brown. We will learn the name of his successor tomorrow.
Simply put: we are grateful to see him go. Why? The facts of his tenure are shocking for victims of abuse, Catholics and the Orange County community.
For more than ten years, Brown cultivated an environment that fostered and rewarded the cover-up of clergy abuse. Need some examples? Since he became Bishop of Orange, he:
– Sent his former highest ranking priest out of the country to avoid a sex abuse and cover-up deposition and then faced criminal contempt of court charges,
– Used an over-priced PR stunt to announce “reforms” in his diocese – reforms that he never took seriously,
– Kept numerous priests in ministry who had been accused of abuse, and then removed them in events that deceived parishioners and shamed victims about the true nature of the abuse,
– Currently keeps an accused priest in ministry, even transferring him to a wealthy south county parish without giving complete information to parishioners, and
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