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Orange County Weekly
By Gustavo Arellano
Fri., Feb. 8 2013
The ink hadn’t even dried (or whatever the digital equivalent of that dead-tree era metaphor is) on author Daniel A. Olivas’ moving New York Times op-ed piece on OC’s worst-ever pedophile priest, Eleuterio Ramos, before Bill Donohue, the president of the long-irrelevant Catholic League, began complaining.
See, Donohue is the type of guy who believes anyone who brings up the Catholic Church sex-abuse scandal is anti-Catholic because those molesting priests were homosexual, they molested long ago, and everyone else does it, so why concentrate on priests? It’s a strategy he tried on me, leading to a smackdown that was as easy for me to do as dig up OC pioneers who were Klan members.
Yesterday, Donohue sent out a commentary to his donors railing against Olivas and the Times, charging them with being “malicious.” Laughably, it has as many holes in it as the arguments to make Junipero Serra a saint.
Donohue tries to gloss over Ramos’ career to his nonagenarian followers by saying he “was suspended from ministry in the 1990s,” implying that church officials briskly took away Ramos’ priestly faculties upon finding out his pederast ways. As usual, Donohue didn’t even bother with a quick Google search: Weekly readers know that Ramos never lost his priestly faculties, and was only removed from active parish life after a civil suit forced Diocese of Orange officials to fish him back up from the Tijuana parish where they had deposited him after molesting another boy–and this after 15 years of shuffling him from parish to parish after every molestation. But why bother Donohue with details?
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