Music Video: Roger Mahony Hymn (aka Help Us Jesus) featured today up top at City of Angels Network

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By Kay Ebeling
Time for a mid-week music break from reading all these documents. Click the video box above the headline to watch the music video of a song written by an LA musician after seeing the movie Deliver Us From Evil.

The song is “Roger Mahony Hymn (aka Help Us Jesus)” and the band is The Wrynkles.

“We are musicians from the seventies now in our fifties," said, Ron Frederick, band leader and vocalist, "and we spell the band’s name that way instead of other people making jokes about old men playing music."

What inspired the song? “About six months ago, I was going to write a sarcastic song about Jerry Falwell, around the time he died. I was sitting at work and coincidentally that day Deliver Us From Evil came in the mail from NetFlix.

“Suddenly I had to write that song.”

The rest of the band are Dave Hall the bass player, Richard Paine on drums, and Fred Grabert on guitar.

You can get to the song on YouTube by copy and pasting this in the search box at YouTube:

Roger Mahony Hymn (aka Help Us Jesus)

Then at the right click on more information to read the lyrics a sampling of which is here:

(words and music by Ron Frederick, c2008)

The bells ring for you in churches untrue and unfaithful
With children abused, and priests stand accused of love hateful
What's really much worse is you put the church first, holy deception
Not one parent heard even one single word of protection

We know you never cared, you never cared for those children
We know you never cared, your lies and betrayals so cruel

Mr. Frederick says he's not a crime victim himself. "I wasn't molested, but I know about it."

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Watch the video all this week up top here at City of Angels Network.

Jury Selection could be over by Thursday PM, opening statements as early as Monday, in first trial in LA concerning pedophile priests

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By Kay Ebeling
Jury selection could be complete as early as Thursday afternoon, according to a source in the first Salesian cases trial, which will be the first time a case concerning pedophile priests has gone before a jury in Los Angeles. Opening statements could start as early as Monday May 12th.

Monday of last week when jury selection began, jurors who could not afford to serve for a 5 to 6 week trial made their cases to Judge Emilie Elias. Since then, the task has been finding jurors who have not heard too much about the settlements between the Los Angeles Archdiocese and more than five hundred plaintiffs last July.

Apparently they have run into no serious problems, and opening statements will likely begin early next week.

City of Angels is not covering jury selection, since our reporter is also a victim of a crime similar to ones to be discussed in the trial, and we don't want to taint a potential juror. We are staying away from Jury Selection but will be covering the trial and interviewing participants on camera for videos at City of Angels Network as the trial progresses.

We will post here as soon as a jury is selected and a date and time set for opening statements.

The trial will be in LA Superior Court, Department 308, on Commonwealth & Sixth Street, 14th Floor, Judge Emilie Elias' court.

For background on the trial read previous posts here.

Meanwhile at City of Angels Network we keep adding and changing videos daily, up top above the headline and down the left hand column of the blog, so keep coming back.

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Levada said, before going to Vatican in 2005, bishops protected church over children. Now as Pope Junior, it never happened.

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By Kay Ebeling
"We are suffering for the mistakes of bishops and administrators who did not place the future protection of children above their desire to protect the reputation and service of priests who had proven themselves unfaithful to their duties.” -- Wm Levada, 2005

When William Levada left for the Vatican in 2005 to do Ratzinger’s old job, I thought the former bishop of San Francisco was running from the feds. Yet there he was back on US soil last week representing the pope with this quote: "I personally do not accept that there has been a broad base of bishops guilty of aiding and abetting pedophiles." Another blatant lie by a hierarchy spokesman reported over and over again as a fact in mainstream media.

“When I challenged Levada it was about investigating a former bishop,” said Jim Jenkins who resigned from the San Francisco Review Board and is now on the VOTF Survivors Support Working Group. “I didn't want to be part of an elaborate dishonest public relations scheme, and that's all that review board had become. Levada was becoming so disingenuous.”

Just talking off the top of his head, the San Francisco psychologist named a list of priests whose crimes Levada himself aided and abetted in covering.

“There’s Ingles, O’Connor, O’Shea, and Quinn. The former bishop of San Francisco in 2004 -2005 when I was on the review board was John Quinn.”

(Wikipedia calls John Quinn “popular” and an “irenic and liberal presence” in San Francisco.)

Jenkins tells me a convoluted story that again shows how tangled are these fronds in the stories of Sex Crimes in the Catholic Church the last 40 or 50 years. You barely touch a leaf and the flower opens, then it reveals layer upon layer of petals full of scandal about this priest was a buddy to that priest, and they all knew about each other and how can anybody believe them when they claim innocence.

No wonder I plan to spend another 16 years writing about Sex Crimes in the Catholic Church. It’s going to take that long to figure it all out.

Here’s another tangled web from --

Again--

The alumnae of St. John’s Seminary in Camarillo, Southern California, late 20th Century.

“I was investigating a man named Ingles he was the canon lawyer for the archdiocese,” Jenkins said, Gregory Ingles during the 1970s was raping both boys and girls at Marin Catholic High School and I was investigating that one case.
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Quinn and Ingles live together in Menlo Park where they hold catered parties for a group of priests who are all accused pedophiles
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“We found out that Ingles was living in the same house at the same time as the former Archbishop John Quinn down at a seminary in Menlo Park.

“I don't know what their relationship was but I started asking questions. What is their relationship? What is this guy Ingles doing living at a seminary when he’s a risk to both men and women?”

Father Gregory Ingels, accused of sodomizing a teenage boy three decades before, as a canon lawyer was one of Levada’s closest advisors.

More about Ingels: in May 2003, a male student at Marin Catholic High School where Ingels taught in the early 1970s cooperated with police in recording phone conversations.

Ingles was about to be prosecuted when the Stogner decision in the US Supreme Court 2003 wiped out his charges.

Jenkins continued:

“As it turned out not only was Ingels keeping house with the former Archbishop John Quinn, but they were having banquet meals for accused priests.

“All these accused priests who had been suspended were going down there to have banquet meals at the house and they were being feted, it was like a support group I guess.

“I told Levada, you need to get him out of there, he can’t be living with the former archbishop. He’s had his name all over the newspaper for raping boys and girls and now he’s living with the former archbishop (who was also accused of rape children, but never prosecuted).
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Levada, the administrator, the archbishop, said, 'What am I supposed to do?' and he got promoted to the Vatican.
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“Levada said, Why do I have to do that?” Jenkins said. “I said because the whole church will come down down if people find out this is going on. They would be incensed. Again, Ingles was not just living there, but he and Quinn were having banquet meals for accused priests.

Levada said, what am I supposed to do?

Before going to Rome, at a special Mass William Levada spoke:

"We are suffering for the mistakes of bishops and administrators who did not place the future protection of children above their desire to protect the reputation and service of priests who had proven themselves unfaithful to their duties," the archbishop told an audience of some 400 priests and 2,000 parishioners, according to SF Weekly.

(NOTE: SF Weekly, and New Times in LA, LA Weekly, former vanguards in reporting on clergy sex crim, thanks to corporate buyouts in last two years no longer report on any of these crimes, not at all, nyet, nada, rien de tout.)

Levada was one of four U.S. church leaders who worked with- Pope John Paul in crafting a compromise sex-abuse plan, the "zero tolerance" policy in December 2002.
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Yes, folks, your leaders are lying to you in the press, surprise, surprise.
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Yet Levada could say with a straight face to the press last week:

"I personally do not accept that there has been a broad base of bishops guilty of aiding and abetting pedophiles."

Worse yet, the press reported it.

Jenkins continued: “Levada said, what am I supposed to do? Then he told us he’d spoken to Quinn and the former archbishop said there’s no reason Ingles should leave the house.”

A lot of the the perpetrators in San Francisco were monsignors, Jenkins told me. This is not the last you will read and hear in City of Angels about the graduates of St. John's Seminary in Camarillo.
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Monsignor Patrick O’Shea
Defrocked in 1994, has been jailed twice on child abuse and embezzlement charges. Last known to be living in a on Jack Hill Drive in a Kelly Ridge subdivision of Oroville (October 2005)

According to a June 29, 2003, article by the San Francisco Chronicle, there was a 224-count indictment against O'Shea in 2000. The indictments were dropped in 2003 when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled a California law extending the legal deadline for child-molestation charges was unconstitutional.
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John J. O’Connor
In August, 2002, O'Connor was "quietly for health reasons" placed on leave by San Francisco Archdiocese after recent allegation that he had had improper contact with a boy more than 30 years ago at St. Mary's Cathedral

(CREDIT: Bishop Accountability)

(TRIVIA: There are 63 priest in the Bishop Accountability database of sexual predators whose names begin with O apostrophe)
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Levada went to St. John’s Seminary in Camarillo in the late 1950s.
Patrick Ziemann, Bishop of Santa Rosa, was in St. John's Seminary arrived in 1963, the year after Mahony graduated.
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DON'T TELL ME
Levada did not know about Ziemann
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Bishop Ziemann forced a young priest to wear a beeper so that he could summon him for trysts in cars, hotel rooms, and even the Santa Rosa Diocese office. (Once, police reports reveal, Ziemann had the cleric orally copulate him on the eve of their joint celebration of a special Sunday Mass.)

The web is tangled, but City of Angels Network will straighten it all out over the next 16 years. Please click my PayPal button so I can buy some new glasses and read the fine print on these documents better.

Onward. . .

Ratzinger is backward, the lightning rod, responsible for the entire crisis. Letter to City of Angels Blog

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By Frater R
(In response to Arrest The Pope Now While You Can!, posted earlier today)

The current Pope really is at the heart of the whole crisis. His backward policies were directly responsible for the whole crisis because he was in charge of the office of doctrine. If anyone could be rightly seen as the lightening rod for this whole thing, Ratzinger is it.

His policies directly led to (perpetrator) R. Henry being moved around to Holy Redeemer after having problems. Had Ratzinger had a zero tolerance policy back then, Rick would never have wound up at Holy Redeemer. So I don't let him off the hook, or even recognize the legitimacy of his papacy.

I think Hymaneus Beta, head of the OTO and Pope of Ecclisia Gnostica Catholica, has a more valid claim to the papacy than ratzinger.

Ratzinger really deserves to be ripped into, after what he did to Father Matthew Fox, that was completely horrible. I'm glad that Fox went to Germany and posted his own set of pronouncements to Ratzinger in the same
place that Martin Luther posted his proclamation.

I'd like to discuss the abuse crisis with Matthew Fox, he's now a priest in the Episcopalian Church, who took him in after Ratzinger Vicious dumped him.

Ratzinger is trying to ignore the crisis.

Ultimately I can respect Mahoney because he was a big enough man to admit that he actually had been one of the "bad guys" in that he admitted that he had his head in the sand and cost his people dearly with his poor leadership. I mean I can respect someone who can admit
he was wrong, and actually ask for my forgiveness. That's a big turnaround from how I was treated when I first approached them.

I know we've made an impact with Mahoney and its clear that he's gotten over embarrassment and is taking a zero tolerance approach, that he admitted he needed to take long, long ago.

I can't respect or even recognize Ratzinger, as he's been at the heart of the problem, and continues to deny the problem exists. Not much of a leader or a man, a pretty small minded individual who's likely a closeted homosexual who uses his power to get the freedom that he would deny the rest of us.

(Frater D is the nom the plume of one of the LA Plaintiffs.)

Write, write, write -- ebeling

Arrest the Pope. Use the Patriot Act, Extraordinary Rendition, ship him to Gitmo==ebeling

Onward