CALIFORNIA
Orange County Weekly

[exhibit 49 – Michael Buckley – via Anthony DeMarco, Jeff Anderson & Associates]

By Gustavo Arellano
Tue., Jan. 22 2013

Yesterday, the Archdiocese of Los Angeles released thousands of pages of personnel files that confirms what those of us who have followed the Catholic Church sex-abuse scandal have known for a good decade but which the vast majority of Catholics refuse to acknowledge: that their leaders, for forever, not only knew about the pedophile priests in their ranks but actively sought to cover up the rapes.

So why should we care about what happens in LA? Because some of those personnel files involve priests who raped in Orange County back when we were part of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, which we’re going to display in the coming days. And, unsurprisingly, because part of the coverup up in LA involved the Diocese of…