On July 16, 1985, Mahony was appointed as archbishop of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, the first Angeleno to hold the office. I understood him to mean that I would have to submit to sexual advances by [Father X] in order to have any grounds to make a complaint." Church sources say that besides conducting mass and performing other priestly duties in the town of Sierra Vista, Zieman had also presided over religious retreats involving young prospective seminarians there and at the monastery in violation of his restrictions. A few days later, presumably with the knowledge of Mahony, Trupia was declared persona non grata at the seminary. (Sources say he is a fixture of Tucson's artsy party scene, and was even spotted recently at a karaoke bar.) [23] In 1984, a police investigation into accusations against O'Grady was closed after a diocesan lawyer promised that O'Grady would be kept away from children. Law enforcement investigated and recommended prosecution, but the district attorney didnt file charges, the statement said. But Salas dropped a bombshell. But the bishop's protection of Salas apparently came with a price. Because I don't think you wanted to do that.". History. When the bishop's position became vacant at Santa Rosa in 1992, Mahony was instrumental in persuading the Vatican to appoint Zieman to the post. According to police reports, Ziemann forced a young priest brought up from Costa Rica (who quickly got into trouble that required the bishop's help) to wear a beeper so that Ziemann could beckon him for sex at all hours. This was exacerbated with the disclosure of the relaxation of rules at the St. Louis seminariesCardinal Glennon College and Kenrick Seminaryand by the publication of Seminary in Crisis, a book by Stafford Poole, CM. These decisions have been made out of deep concern for the healing and reconciliation of abuse victims and for the good of the churchs mission, Gomez told the Los Angeles faithful in a letter. It was the fall of 2010. Our pledge is to keep original, authoritative journalism for Santa Monicans accessible to all, regardless of their means. I'm sorry to hear that.". Still, only 12 priests were ordained out of St. John's last year, and of them, only two were from the Los Angeles archdiocese, with its 3.6 million Roman Catholics. Five years Mahony's junior, Ziemann, now 60, was one of the more promising of the cardinal's golden boys. Gomez said county prosecutors declined to bring charges, but that the archdiocese forwarded the complaint to the Vatican office that handles sex abuse cases. St. John's Seminary is a neighborhood in Camarillo. The Congregation investigated and permitted Bishop Salazar to remain in ministry subject to certain precautionary conditions, which he has respected, the statement said. The Vatican announced the resignation in a one-line statement. Manuel Moreno, a native of Placentia near Fullerton and a member of the St. John's theology school class of '63, is a long-standing friend and former classmate of both high church officials. The catalytic event was a dorm party at Loyola Marymount University in the spring of 1980 attended by several seminarians from St. John's. (As murmurs about Trupia spread, campus wags vulgarly referred to the visits as "See and Cum" weekends.) Still, Moreno took no action against Trupia. And that's not to mention a host of auxiliary bishops, chancellors and vicars general with ties to Mahony who are waiting in the wings to step into positions of greater authority. By accepting our use of cookies, your data will be aggregated with all other user data. Levada consults with one or another member of the group after each session with Ziemann and has met personally with Ziemann and the group at least twice. We took care of that months ago." WATCH LIVE or past services. Santa Monica's trusted source of essential news for 21 years. The 1960s Los Angeles Seminary Crisis - JSTOR The boys' families were told that he would be treated for pedophilia, but sources familiar with the case say there is no evidence that he underwent any treatment. Ziemann took a graduate degree in education at Mount St. Mary's College here, and obtained credentials for secondary school teaching, administration and pupil personnel services. Mahony has also been identified as a key figure in the cover-up of the Catholic Church sexual abuse scandal, where dozens of abusive priests were moved to other churches rather than prosecuted. Mahony retired as head of the archdiocese in 2011, his tenure tarnished by his handling of clergy sex abuse cases, and was replaced by Gomez, who publicly rebuked him. Catalog - St. John's Seminary - Camarillo, CA In July of 1999, he filed a lawsuit against Ziemann accusing the bishop of sexual assaults. The current archbishop of Los Angeles, Most Rev. As at other seminaries, such visitations were routine. But with Trupia, it was different, he recalls. By 1996, only 192 seminaries remained (408 seminaries/houses of formation had . On becoming archbishop of Los Angeles in 1985, Mahony was active in addressing sexual abuse cases. He finished theology school in the class of '67. It was the latest in a string of misconduct allegations against bishops to come to light this year. After the lawsuit involving Trupia and the others was settled in January, purportedly for several million dollars, Moreno issued the briefest of statements. Despite the outrageous spectacle, sources familiar with the case say Moreno, who was by then Tucson's new bishop, chose not to investigate the incident. [18] The letter called all parishes to plan and celebrate each Sunday mass in order to deepen the faith-life of all Catholics through the eucharist. When Roger M. Mahony pulled the plug on child-molesting priest Carl Sutphin earlier this year after elevating him only recently to associate pastor of the soon-to-open Our Lady of the Angels Cathedral downtown, the cardinal's visible anguish stemmed from more than just embarrassment. So go home. It was dedicated on September 2, 2002. Our prayers and good wishes go with him. "What you have to remember is that you don't merely attend seminary with someone, you survive it with them, and the bonds become incredibly strong, like a lifetime brotherhood," says Will Allotto, who attended St. John's in the late 1960s and early '70s before deciding the priesthood wasn't for him. With two years of seminary training elsewhere under his belt, Ziemann arrived at St. John's in 1963, the year after Mahony graduated. Ziemann, who declined numerous interview requests for this article, may have resigned his post at Santa Rosa, but he remains a Roman Catholic bishop. Over $190 million was raised from foundations and individual donors. And Ziemann also helped keep quiet accusations by four men who claimed that Salas had sexually accosted them in his room at the Ukiah rectory. They knew they were going places, and they loved the recognition. Roger Mahony attended St. Charles Borromeo Grammar School in North Hollywood, and at age 14 entered Los Angeles College, the junior seminary of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. You may cancel anytime. He spends a great deal of time in prayer and meditation." But those who know Mahony and Ziemann say their paths have interconnected at St. John's and elsewhere since at least the 1960s. Archbishop Levada of San Francisco, a longtime Ziemann friend and another of Mahony's chums from St. John's, issued a statement that sounded more like a testimonial than a farewell to a disgraced spiritual leader. "At St. Patrick's [seminarians] talked about hitting the gay bars on Friday nights as if it were as routine as going to a Giants game," says an ex-St. John's student, who used to visit a friend at the Menlo Park campus in the late '70s and early '80s. Subscribe to Here's the Deal, our politics newsletter. But in the spring of 1980, the dean called him in and informed him that his grades were deficient and that "because of my refusal to see a psychiatrist, I would be dismissed from St. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Gomez said that office, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, imposed precautionary measures against Salazar and that a further investigation by the archdioceses independent review board found the allegation to be credible. Faced with declining enrollments and spiraling costs, he miffed many in 1987 by selling off a treasure trove of antiquarian books and manuscripts -- including a rare Gutenberg Bible -- that had been donated to the school by the family of the late oil baron Edward Doheny Jr. It was the kind of smarmy tale that few people wanted to believe about the popular bishop. In 1976, former police officer Ted Oswald, then a lay brother at St. Francis and now a priest in Northern California, became suspicious while helping some of the boys with a school project. But there was little enthusiasm by either Santa Rosa police or the local district attorney to go after a sitting Roman Catholic bishop accused of extorting one of his clerics for sex, especially when the accuser was already under suspicion of criminal activity. As first reported by New Times, Mahony authorized the pay-out last August shortly before he would have been forced to testify at DiMaria's civil trial and answer potentially embarrassing questions about Ziemann, who had already been deposed by DiMaria's attorney. The family settled in Los Angeles and he became a U.S. citizen at age 18. The tower, which soars above the school's ornate Spanish rococo chapel, contains three rooms on separate levels that for years served as living quarters for an elderly priest in charge of seminary maintenance. Your email address will not be published. After one of Ziemann's apologies, Salas, speaking in broken English, reminds the bishop that he has heard it all before. Nason's stand against priestly sex abuse may have gotten him kicked out of St. John's, but it didn't go unnoticed. The dean was not mentioned by name in Nason's affidavit. In Mahony's case, such bonds help explain why one of the most powerful hierarchs in the American Catholic church -- whose name, until recently, had been whispered as among those with a shot at becoming pope -- would go to great lengths to harbor pedophile priests while turning his back on their victims. In the 1960s, tension arose between Cardinal James Francis Mclntyre, archbishop of Los Angeles (1886-1979), and the priests of the Congregation of the Mission (or Vincentian Fathers) who were teaching at St. John's Seminary in Camarillo. It was the DiMaria settlement that forced Mahony to give Sutphin and the others their walking papers in late February and early March. Jose Gomez, said the archdiocese was made aware of the claim in 2005. In a rare off-camera interview with a San Francisco television reporter at the monastery last month, Ziemann said, "I prefer that people not know where I'm at. Family Nights at Grace are coming!!! Rather, there was panic that his exploits were about to hit the newspapers. Welcome Home. [1], In 2013, the archdiocese released memos Monsignor Thomas John Curry wrote to Mahony in 1986 and 1987 discussing potential legal accountability for priests, and recommending that priests should try to avoid using therapists who might report them to police. Mahony had even been the star guest at a luncheon in Wempe's honor at the hospital as recently as two years ago. The annual open house allowed . Our second service at 10:15 AM is a celebration service with praise music. [19] Some, including televangelist Mother Angelica, found "Gather Faithfully Together" to be inconsistent with existing official liturgical directives set by the Catholic Church. [11][12], On April 6, 2010, with Mahony due to reach his mandatory retirement age of 75 the following year, the Vatican under Pope Benedict XVI named San Antonio archbishop Jos Horacio Gmez as the coadjutor archbishop of Los Angeles with immediate right of succession to Mahony. John Antczak, Associated Press, Nicole Winfield, Associated Press He served as a regional bishop for San Pedro, one of five pastoral subdivisions within the archdiocese, until 2009 and since then had been vicar for the office of ethnic ministries. Below: Sex-abusing clerics and St. John's alums whom Cardinal Roger Mahony has protected. American seminaries: "hell-holes of error and heresy" Use tab to navigate through the menu items. Sources say the bishop hushed up allegations in Ukiah in 1996 that Salas had stolen money from the church. Finally, in May of 1980, he turned to Zieman, who had been one of his teachers at Our Lady Queen of Angels, telling him not only about the allegations involving Father X, but about Harris' alleged abuse of his friend at Mater Dei. Besides cardinals Mahony and Manning, the walls are peppered with bishops and their top lieutenants, past and present, from dioceses all over the country. The Vatican announced the resignation in a one-line statement. Please check your inbox to confirm. The statement said the archdiocese was informed through a third party. These decisions have been made out of deep concern for the healing and reconciliation of abuse victims and for the good of the churchs mission, Gomez told the Los Angeles faithful in a letter. A place for you to be nurtured and equipped by God's grace through His Word and Sacraments. Tucson's bishop, Moreno, had to explicitly approve the arrangement before his fellow bishop and St. John's alum could perform any priestly duties within the diocese. Alarmed, several seminary students went to the dean to let him know about the LMU incident and "to more or less warn him that unless something was done about [Father X], there would be a mess in the press." This investigation was conducted by the archdioceses own Clergy Misconduct Oversight Board, which found the allegation to be credible, Gomez said in his letter. The resignation comes during a year in which the clerical abuse scandal has exploded anew. Gays And The Seminary - Newsweek Vice President Harris pays a visit to small Santa Monica business on Main St, Potential suicide attempt prevented in Palisades Park by Santa Monica PD, A California city was making a difference on homelessness. First Name REQUIRED. Thank you. Mahony is the son of a North Hollywood electrician who moonlighted as a poultry rancher during the cardinal's childhood.