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A poster promoting a 2006 parish carnival at Hollywood\ufffds Blessed
\nSacrament Church has provoked a series of escalating problems \ufffd to the point
\nthat some parishioners have asked the Archdiocese of Los Angeles to reign in
\ntheir pastor.<\/p>\n
Parishioner Larry Bugbee, spokesman for the \ufffdCommittee of Hundreds of Parishioners
\nand Friends\ufffd of Blessed Sacrament parish, says that their pastor, Fr. Michael
\nMandala, S.J., has promoted indecent entertainment at the last two parish carnivals,
\nwhich included scantily-clad dancers making sexually suggestive movements in
\nfront of an audience of all ages.<\/p>\n
The committee\ufffds foremost complaint is over a poster promoting the 2006 carnival,
\nwhich prominently displayed photographs of scantily clad women in suggestive
\nposes. When a similar poster was circulated for the 2007 carnival, Fr. Mandala
\ntold one parishioner, \ufffdIt\ufffds not as bad as last year\ufffds.\ufffd <\/p>\n
…Copies of the 2006 poster have been hand-delivered to Cardinal Roger Mahony,
\nas well as his Vicar for Clergy, the Clergy Misconduct Oversight Board and the
\ndirector of Safeguard the Children for the Archdiocese. In March 2007, a detailed
\nletter was delivered to the same people, as well as to the Jesuit provincial.
\nOne of the signers of the letter was a former prioress of the Monastery of the
\nAngels, a cloistered Dominican nun who lives near the parish. Neither Cardinal
\nMahony nor anyone else from the Archdiocese has responded to the letter, Bugbee
\nsaid.<\/p>\n
During the 2006 carnival, parishioner Russell Brown came out of church after A poster promoting a 2006 parish carnival at Hollywood\ufffds Blessed Sacrament Church has provoked a series of escalating problems \ufffd to the point that some parishioners have asked the Archdiocese…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nMass to find several men whistling. He witnessed a female performer shaking her
\nbreasts, then her buttocks onstage.
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