The Bishop Robert Brom File

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Please note that the Bishop Brom File is divided into three sections:

Part I – The NEP Press Release of March 24, 2007 on Bishop Brom

Part II – An Excerpt taken from The Rite of Sodomy on Bishop Brom

Part III – An Excerpt from a Blog by City of Angels Lady on Bishop Brom’s Nov. 30, 2006 Deposition.

Part I National Media Release

Randy Engel, author, The Rite of Sodomy
New Engel Publishing
Box 356, Export, PA 15632
Phone  724 – 327 – 7379
E-Mail:  newengelpub@riteofsodomy.com

March 24, 2007

“Homosexual Prelates Add Extra Risk Factors

in Diocesan Bankruptcy Cases”

            “Who can expect the flock to prosper when its shepherd has sunk

            so deep into the bowels of the devil ... Who will make a mistress

             of a cleric, or a woman of a man? ... Who, by his lust, will consign

             a son whom he spiritually begotten for God to slavery under

             the iron law of Satanic tyranny.”

                                                                        Saint Peter Damian (1007-1072)

Pittsburgh, PA… “The recent filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy by Bishop Robert H. Brom of the Diocese of San Diego is an excellent example of how homosexual prelates in the Catholic hierarchy place their dioceses at extra risk for clerical sexual abuse lawsuits, abuse cover-ups and potential bankruptcy,” says Randy Engel, author of The Rite of Sodomy – Homosexuality and the Roman Catholic Church.

Engel noted that the Catholic laity of the San Diego Diocese, who will ultimately foot the bill for the bankruptcy filing of February 27, 2007 and subsequent settlements for victims of clerical sexual abuse in the diocese, “have been forced to face some painful truths about homosexual shepherds  – the first of which is that private vice has public consequences and the second, that the cover-ups connected with the crime of clerical pederasty are closely connected to the rise of the Homosexual Collective both within and without the Church.” 

Bishop Brom is one of more than 25 Catholic bishops and cardinals whose homosexual history is documented in The Rite of Sodomy (www.riteofsodomy.com). ***

“The tragedy is that the Holy See was aware of Bishop Brom’s  predatory homosexual record while he was Bishop of the Diocese of Duluth, Minn., but Pope John Paul II nevertheless made him Coadjutor Bishop of San Diego with the right of succession in May 1989,”  said Engel. “There is no time like the present for Pope Benedict XVI to correct his predecessor’s mistake, and replace Bishop Brom with a shepherd that does not fleece his flock and seduce his spiritual sons,” concluded Engel.

The End

Part II – Excerpt from Chapter 14, pp. 854-861 of The Rite of Sodomy by Randy Engel

Bishop Robert H. Brom

Diocese of San Diego

Like many homosexual bishops in AmChurch, Bishop Brom’s clerical career progressed relatively rapidly. Born in Arcadia, Wis. on September 18, 1938, young Brom attended St. Mary’s College and Immaculate Heart of Mary Seminary in Winona, Minn. He attended the Gregorian University in Rome and was ordained a priest of the Winona Diocese in Rome on December 18, 1963. Winona is a small rural diocese in Minnesota. 

On May 23, 1983, Robert Brom was consecrated Bishop of Duluth by fellow homosexual Archbishop John R. Roach of St. Paul-Minneapolis. Six years later, on April 22, 1989, the Vatican announced the appointment of Bishop Brom as coadjutor bishop of San Diego with right of succession to assist the ailing Bishop Leo Maher who was suffering from brain cancer.

Although there were high-level Minnesota diocesan officials who knew that Brom had been charged with sexually abusing seminarians at Immaculate Heart Seminary in Winona, these officials were silent when the Holy See appointed Brom head of the San Diego Diocese. As for the Holy See, the record shows that Vatican officials also knew that Brom was sexually molesting seminarians at Winona, but promoted him to the Diocese of San Diego nevertheless.

Ironically, it was rumored that the Vatican had sent Bishop Brom to San Diego to clean up the homosexual mess at St. Francis de Sales Collegiate Seminary associated with the University of San Diego. (1)

After Bishop Maher died on February 23, 1991 and Bishop Brom became the Ordinary of San Diego, he continued to reside at St. Francis Seminary.

Bishop Brom is the Chairman of the USCCB’s Ad Hoc Committee on Bishops’ Life and Ministry and a spokesman for AmChurch on issue of predatory bishops who abuse minors and adults under their care. (2) The USCCB seven-member task force headed by Brom is reported to be developing protocols for exercising mutual episcopal responsibility in the realm of episcopal sexual abuse and misconduct. (3)

The Accusations Against Brom

Bishop Brom was part of the Bernardin homosexual loop. One of his victims called him a “homosexual rapist.” (4)  The summary case against him is pretty straight forward.    

In the 1980s, Bishop Brom was charged with sexually molesting seminary students at Immaculate Heart Seminary in Winona along with other bishops and priests including Archbishop Joseph Bernardin. Brom pressured one of his victims to sign a “retraction” statement in order to obtain “hush money” from the settlement.

The details of these charges did not come to light until March 13, 2002, in connection with an affidavit in favor of an employee of the Catholic San Diego News Notes, a traditionalist Catholic newspaper that  was threatened with a lawsuit filed by the Diocese of San Diego and its Ordinary Bishop Brom. (5) It is here that we begin our review of the Brom case.

News Notes which has faithfully reported on the Modernist revolution in the San Diego Diocese had been a thorn in the side of Bishop Brom for years when the bishop decided to file a nuisance suit seeking a restraining order against the newspaper’s photographer Robert W. Kumpel.

As part of Kumpel’s defense, on March 13, 2002, his attorney, Richard J. Vattuone obtained a statement from Mr. Mark Brooks.

In Chapter XV of Lead Us Not Into Temptation, author Jason Berry, covers the difficulties that Brooks experienced in San Diego’s diocesan seminary under Bishop Leo Maher.

Brooks, a native of Baltimore and an ex-Marine and teacher, was a late vocation to the priesthood. In August 1980 at the age of 26, he entered St. Francis Seminary in San Diego after he completed his last tour of duty. It was his lifelong dream to become a priest. 

As Brooks told Berry, it soon became apparent that seminary life at St. Francis had undergone a radical change both in theology and morals since the pre-Vatican II days. Aquinas was out and Kohlberg was in. (6)

The age-old traditional warning against forming particular friendships was replaced by faculty insistence on the value of intimate male bonding and close male relationships. (7) Homosexual acting out by staff, faculty and seminarians was not simply ignored. It was encouraged. In one case a seminarian in his late 30s took a 16-year-old boy to live with him. (8)

In another case, Father Nicholas Reveles, a predatory homosexual priest who taught music at the University of San Diego was reported to have seduced a large number of seminarians at St. Francis Seminary. One of the seminarians that Reveles corrupted said, “Those of us who had been through it with him would see the next class of freshmen and he’d pick out one he liked; they’re together in chapel, then he’s driving Nick’s car. Then all of a sudden the guy is dropped….How do you say to someone, ‘Be careful?”’ said the seminarian. (9)

In 1984, Reveles made the unfortunate mistake of trying to recruit Brooks. The ex-Marine said that he went to the priest’s apartment next to the university campus to confront his chief abuser. He said that it appeared that Reveles was watching porn and sipping wine in his living room with another man, “a sitting bishop and well-known theologian.” (10)

Brooks said he was also personally sexually harassed and propositioned “a dozen times” by one of his counselors, Father Stephen Dunn who served as Vice-Rector at St. Francis. (11) When Brooks complained to  Dunn, who was also his spiritual advisor, he was advised to lighten up - that St. Francis was a school of love. (12)

                The ex-seminarian also recalled that for awhile there was a coffin kept in the storage room where some of the kinkier students acted out their more aberrant and occult homosexual fantasies. (13)

                 Brooks was eventually expelled from the seminary by Dunn following a brief mandated stay at a rehabilitation center for alleged “alcoholism.” The center released him after three weeks stating that Brooks was not suffering from alcoholism, but from post-traumatic stress-syndrome. (14) In 1984, after St. Francis officials refused to give him a recommendation to another seminary, Brooks filed a civil damage suit against the seminary, the diocese and Bishop Maher. 

                In May 1985, diocesan attorneys negotiated a $15,000 settlement with Brooks. He dropped his suit, and his $9,000 in back tuition was waived. (15) Brooks temporarily moved to Baltimore, and took on a secular occupation. He returned to California in the early 1990s.

                In September 1993, when he was living in Los Angeles, Brooks arranged to meet with Cardinal Mahony on the recommendation of Bishop John Kinney of Bismarck, N.D., Chairman of the newly established NCCB Ad Hoc Committee on Sexual Abuse.

Brooks naïvely poured out his heart and his evidence to Mahony concerning the problems at St. Francis Seminary as well as information related to the sex abuse charges against Brom and Bernardin and Company in Winona. Brooks said that Mahony took copious notes – a statement one would have no difficulty in believing given Mahony’s close connections to AmChurch’s Homosexual Collective.

In return, the seemingly grateful Mahony offered to smooth the way for Brooks to study for the priesthood in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. The two men continued their correspondence until 1997 when Brooks reached a settlement with Brom and the San Diego Diocese on a final settlement of the St. Francis Seminary debacle. It had been at Mahony’s suggestion that Brooks entertain an open line of communication with Brom on the sex abuse problems at St. Francis Seminary. Bishop Brom referred to the negotiated settlement of $120,000 (to be paid in installments) with Brooks as “pastoral outreach.” (16) The settlement contained a strict “confidentiality agreement” which served as a signal to Mahony that he could dump Brooks without any adverse ramifications and he promptly did just that. Brooks kept a copy of the diocese’s cancelled checks for evidence.

There was one good thing beside the financial settlement that came out of the Brom-Brooks “dialogue.”

Brooks remembered that during their conversations Brom systematically expressed an intense criticism of and obsession with the San Diego News Notes who voiced frequent criticism of the rampant clerical homosexuality and pederasty in the San Diego Diocese under Brom. Brooks reported that the bishop had ordered all diocesan officials not to speak to News Notes reporters.

                This is one reason that when Bishop Brom, Corporation Sole, threw a nuisance lawsuit at News Notes investigative reporter Robert Kumpel, attorney Richard Vattuone obtained a sworn affidavit from Brooks on Bishop Brom’s long-standing feud with the Catholic newspaper. (17)

                In his sworn statement of March 12, 2002, Brooks mentioned publicly for the first time that he had spoken by phone with a former seminarian from Immaculate Heart Seminary in Winona named Jeffrey Maras, who confirmed that while Bishop of Duluth, Brom had coerced him into a four-year sexual relationship. (18) Maras told Brooks that he could identify Brom from the markings on his privates. (19)

Maras, desperately in need of money, agreed to enter into a confidential financial settlement with Brom in exchange for a fraudulent “retraction letter” that he was forced to write as a condition for receiving financial compensation from the bishop. (20)

                 Brooks said that in or about February 1999, in one of his dialogues with the bishop, he asked Brom about the Maras accusations. The bishop retorted that Maras was mentally ill and/or a liar even though he (Brom) admitted that the former seminarian had passed two polygraph examinations. Brooks said that Brom, like many homosexuals, had a vindictive personality and his “modus operandi” was one “of blame and retaliation by any means.” (21)

                When the San Diego Union-Tribune picked up the Winona story, Brom issued a statement through his public relations agent Bernadeane Carr, who denied the allegation that Brom had sexually abused seminarians at Immaculate Heart Seminary when he was Bishop of Duluth and that no money was paid out

 - only a minimum insurance money. (22)

Big mistake!

                On March 21, 2002 two fellow bishops confirmed that in the mid-1990s they were involved in a legal settlement of a claim that Bishop Brom coerced a seminarian into having sex when he (Brom) was Bishop of Duluth. (23)

One bishop, Archbishop Roger L. Schwietz, a priest of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate, now Archbishop of Anchorage, Alaska who was appointed by the Vatican to succeed Brom as Bishop of Duluth on December 12, 1989, after affirming the accusation, added that the seminarian who leveled the charges retracted them in order to claim the under $100,000 (actually $75,000) settlement.

A portion of the “retraction” Maras signed read:

Following careful investigation by many attorneys working              independently, hard facts have been brought to light which          contradict [the former seminarian’s] allegations and disprove what he thought he had remembered.…Having no other claims for misconduct against bishops, priests and institutions…[he] freely retracts each and every allegation and claim against each of them, and welcomes the assistance provided herein toward a healthy life.” (24)

Pardon? How is it possible for an adult man with intellectual and moral qualities sufficient to qualify  him as a candidate for the priesthood not remember the identity of a bishop or bishops who used him as a sex slave and sodomized him for over four years against his will? Either Maras was telling the truth about Brom or he was not.

As James Bendell, attorney for Roman Catholic Faithful, has stated, “Why would any individual negotiate a financial settlement with seminarians who are making false charges against a bishop, serious charges, I might add.” “To me it’s incomprehensible that someone would pay up to $100,000 to another who falsely accuses him of sexual misconduct,” said Bendell. (25)

The second bishop who confirmed the payment by Brom to Maras was Archbishop John G. Vlazny, of Portland, Ore., who was Bishop of Winona when the case was settled. Vlazny, yet another Bernardin boy, was a native of Chicago. He was consecrated an Auxiliary Bishop of the Chicago Archdiocese by Cardinal Bernardin on October 18, 1983.

                When questioned about the Brooks revelation, Vlazny informed reporters that the retraction by the seminarian was a condition insisted on by the Duluth Diocese (meaning Brom and Schwiet), not the Winona Diocese, in return for the settlement. Bishop Vlazny said that the former seminarian (Maras) also accused other top prelates including Joseph Cardinal Bernardin of forcing seminarians to have sex with them.

                At the time, Vlazny said he did not place much credibility in the accuracy of the charges against Brom and the other prelates because “they were just too bizarre to believe.” (26) He said that an inquiry into the charges by his Judicial Vicar cast doubt on the accuracy of the accusations against Brom and the other fellow bishops. He said that the settlement of less than $100,000 was paid by the Winona Diocese that was responsible for the operation of the seminary, and Brom’s former Diocese of Duluth. 

                Asked why any bishop would settle a serious charge of sexually corrupting seminarians if there were “hard facts” that disproved the accusations, Vlazny stated he viewed the settlement “not as a matter of justice but as a matter of charity.” (27)

                Not that Vlazny was a novice when it came to covering up sexual misconduct in his own Diocese of Winona. It was the responsibility of Father (now Monsignor) Gerald Mahon, the bishop’s Vicar General and top aide to handle alleged cases of clerical sexual abuse in the diocese. Mahon had been Rector of Immaculate Heart Seminary for 17 years and was part of the diocesan team that Vlazny inherited when he became Bishop of Winona. 

                Yet Mahon was himself accused of the homosexual corruption of two seminarians in two lawsuits that were settled privately and without publicity in out-of-court settlements by the Diocese of Winona under Vlazny who described the $100,000 or so payouts as having only “nuisance value.” (28) 

                On July 3, 2002, Brom made still another big mistake!

At a news conference following the USCCB Dallas meeting on clerical sex abuse by priests and religious (but not by bishops or cardinals), Bishop Brom told reporters at a news conference in San Diego that there had been “no large financial settlements” of sexual misconduct in the diocese since 1990 when he was made coadjutor bishop.

This public claim was denied by John C. Manly, a California attorney who told the media that in December 2001, the San Diego Diocese paid $250,000 to a victim of just one pederast priest with a check drawn on a Union Bank of California account held by the San Diego Diocese. (29)

Diocesan officials scrambled to cover for their boss who was caught in another barefaced lie. The record shows that Bishop Brom was personally involved in the December 2001settlement. (30)

Maras Charges Backed up

In 1998, RCF attorney James Bendell traveled to Winona on a fact-finding mission on sexual abuse in the diocese including the exploitation of seminarians at Immaculate Heart Seminary. Bendell established communication with Bishop Brom’s lawyer, Vincent E. Whelan.

                In a letter dated December 22, 1998, from Whelan to Bendell, the former confirmed that there was another seminarian from Winona, Andrew Jacobs, who also alleged he was abused by bishops at Immaculate Heart Seminary. Whelan wrote Bendell that although neither he nor Bishop Brom were involved in the Jacobs’ case, they were informed that the Winona Diocese, represented by attorney George Restovich, had reached a negotiated settlement with Jacobs. (31)

                Bendell also reported that in September 1998, John P. Webster, a former seminarian from Immaculate Heart Seminary in Winona was convicted of sexually molesting a teenage boy in June 1997 during a three day retreat at the seminary aimed at recruiting potential candidates to the religious life. Webster received a sentence of 120 days in jail and 10 years probation. (32)

                Charges that there was a bishops’ ring of sexual predators operating in the Winona Diocese at Immaculate Heart Seminary were also backed up by another source - Msgr. Michael Higgins, a canon  lawyer formerly from the Diocese of San Diego. (33)

                In an April 22, 1999 letter to Pope John Paul II that addressed the decree of punitive laicization by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith instigated by Bishop Brom against the “troublesome” priest, Msgr. Higgins stated:

It is a matter of public record …that the Bishop of San Diego, Robert Brom, has himself been charged with grave sexual behavior and has paid hundreds of thousands of dollars of diocesan funds in attorneys’ fees and damages to escape the consequences of that misconduct…and was given a promotion to the Diocese of San Diego when the full extent of his disgusting and immoral behavior was already known.” (34)

In his letter to the pope, Higgins went on to explain his personal knowledge of Brom’s homosexual activities at Winona.

                Msgr. Higgins told the Holy Father that in 1985 he became good friends with families of several seminarians studying at Immaculate Heart of Mary Seminary in Winona. He said that one seminarian told him that Bishop Brom would come to the seminary and visit handsome seminarians in their rooms for the purpose of initiating homosexual activity.

One seminarian revealed to Higgins that Brom made sexual advances upon him even though he was not studying for Brom’s diocese (Duluth). After graduation from the college seminary, the young man finally informed his parents of what Brom had done to him. (35) Once the initial shock was over, the seminarian’s parents paid the cost of a lawsuit filed by their son. His two attorneys contacted Archbishop Gabriel Montalvo, the Apostolic Nuncio in Washington, D.C. in May 1989. The Nuncio, in turn, was required to relay the information to the Holy Father in Rome and the proper dicasteries dealing with the episcopate.

Pope John Paul II appointed Brom coadjutor Bishop of San Diego with the right of succession on May 1, 1989. This means that the Holy See had 14 months to change its mind concerning Brom’s appointment to San Diego, but it did nothing. The fact that Brom was preying on seminarians in the Winona Diocese appeared to be no impediment to his advancement. On July 10, 1990, Brom succeeded Bishop Maher as the fourth Bishop of San Diego. (36) The seminarian in question received an out-of-court settlement in excess of $300,000 with the San Diego Diocese paying out $75,000 for damage Brom had done at Winona seminary. The records were sealed as Brom did not want the nature of the lawsuit to be made public, Higgins wrote the Holy Father. 

 In the meantime, Brom worked out his revenge against Msgr. Higgins by laicizing the whistle-blowing priest on trumped-up charges of soliciting sex in the confessional. Higgins has appealed the decision of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. The Congregation came down in Brom’s favor without giving Higgins a hearing in Rome and without a judicial trial that Brom is required to hold under canon law. (37)  As of the spring 2003, Msgr. Higgins was happily employed as a priest in prison ministry and working with Alcoholics Anonymous and recovering alcoholics and drug addicts. (38)

                As of the winter of 2007, Bishop Brom remains the Ordinary of the San Diego Diocese.

Endnotes:

1. Stephen Brady, “Another Piece of the Puzzle? Payments to Bishops’ alleged boy toys: Charity? Or Hush Money,” Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam, Spring, 20003, p.21 at http://www.rcf.org/.

See also Berry, Lead Us Not Into Temptation, pp. 244-248.

2. Patricia Rice, “Bishops would add themselves to sex abuse policy,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 11 November 2002.

3. Stephen Brady, 22.

4. Ibid., 12.

5. Ibid.

6. Berry, Lead Us Not Into Temptation, 245.

7. Ibid.

8. Ibid., 248.

9. Ibid. 246-247.

10. Brady, 21.

11. Berry, 247-248.

12. Brady, 14.

13. Ibid.

14. Berry, 248.

15. Ibid. 249.

16. Brady, “Another Piece of the Puzzle?”

17. Declaration of Mark Brooks in opposition to Plaintiff  Maryann Fallon’s Application for Injunction, Superior Court of the State of California, The Roman catholic Bishop of San Diego, Corporation Sole, Vs Plaintiff, Robert Kumpel, Case No. GIC 783810. The Brooks’ declaration is online at the RCF website.

18. Ibid., 4.

19. Ibid.

20. Ibid.

21. Ibid.

22. Stephen Kurkjian and Michael Rezendes, “Settlement in Minn. And retraction cited,” Boston Globe, 22 March 2002. Also Michael Rezendes, “Settlement counters claim by a bishop,” Boston Globe, 3 July 2002.

23. Kurkjian and Rezendes, “Settlement in Minn.”

24. Ibid.

25. Brady, 16.

26. Kurkjian and Rezendes, “Settlement in Minn.”

27. Ibid.

28. See  James Bendell, “Another Bernardin Legacy,” Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam, AMDG, Winter, 1998 available at http://rcf.org/Old_web/Press/AMDG/1998winter.htm#3. 

29. Michael Rezendes, “Settlement counters claim by a bishop.”

30. Ibid.

31. Brady, 16.Letter of December 22, 1998 from Mr. Vincent Whelan to RCF attorney, James Bendell, on the Andrew case.  

32. Bendell, “Another Bernardin Legacy.”

33. Ibid.

34. Brady, 19.

35. Ibid.

36. Ibid., 19-20.

37. Ibid., 18.

38. Ibid.

End of Excerpt from The Rite of Sodomy

Part III Excerpt from the November 30, 2006 Deposition of Bishop Brom As Posted by City of Angels Lady in March 2007

Brom Pushes Bankruptcy To Prevent Release of Documents Re His Own "Sexual Misconduct" in Perv Priest Civil Hearings Against Catholic Archdioceses

It’s not just about the money.

Motion Compelling Deposition, Testimony, and production of documents by R. Brom et al, hearing scheduled for Feb 28 2007 canceled due to bankruptcy filing.

In deposition testimony last November Bishop Robert Brom admitted there had been an investigation into his own sexual misconduct. Documents about that investigation were about to emerge if the civil cases in San Diego had continued one more day. A motion to compel Bishop Brom to respond to questions about his specific sexual misconduct allegations was filed February 22, by John Manly, attorney for the plaintiffs, just hours before the San Diego Archdiocese announced it was filing for bankruptcy, thus putting the 140 cases regarding the San Diego archdiocese on hold.

On November 30, 2006 Bishop Robert Brom said under oath in deposition that he had been “investigated for allegations that I took part in a specific orgy at the seminary that was connected with the cardinal.” When Manly asked Brom if he could turn over documents about that investigation into the bishop's sexual misconduct, his attorney Bill Whalen jumped in and got the bishop to stop talking, claiming first amendment freedom of religion rights.

Here is how I stumbled on this information:

San Diego civil case hearings that were scheduled for this morning in L.A. Superior Court just fell off the calendar as attorneys for the church, knowing the archdiocese bankruptcy would be official as of 10 AM today, did not even show up for two scheduled hearings in the San Diego cases: one motion to quash in GIC823004, and a motion for summary judgment for CIG 808368.

So after Judge Haley Fromholz denied all 38 motions to strike filed on behalf of the Catholic Health and Welfare Corporation by John Potts of the Hennigan firm, the same row of attorneys continued to stand before him.

FROMHOLZ: The San Diego attorneys do not intend to appear because of the bankruptcy. And I see that attorneys for Doe 3 are also not appearing, so number 7 is taken off the calendar as it was abandoned by the moving party, and number four was taken off by the moving party.

Number 7 was GIC 808368 so after the hearings I went down to room 106 to view documents in the free room for the public (plaintiffs, and broke attorneys, and private eyes and bloggers hang out there.)

Just out of curiosity I opened up documents on GIC 808368 to see what case came so close to having a motion for summary judgement heard today but was stopped by the San Diego Archdiocese bankruptcy. The most recent documents in this case were motions to compel Bishop Robert Brom to answer questions in deposition.

The questions that Brom is refusing to answer in depositions relate to an investigation of Bishop Brom himself for allegations of sexual misconduct. These words jumped out at me:

On November 30, 2006 Bishop Brom said under oath in deposition that he had been “investigated for allegations that I took part in a specific orgy at the seminary that was connected with the cardinal.” [emphasis added by NEP]

At this point the bishop’s attorney jumps in and tells his client to stop responding and the bishop then continued to not respond to a whole series of questions.

Attorney Manly for the plaintiffs then asks Brom to produce documents about this investigation that took place against Bishop Brom and the church attorney Whelan chimes in: I’m instructing my client not to answer until we confer” with several other attorneys. . . .

Bishop Brom let it slip that there had been an investigation of him, himself, his Excellency, the robed holy one himself -- about taking part in “this specific orgy at the seminary,” like there were a lot of them?

These are the documents that the church has been losing its battle to refuse to turn over in compliance with subpoenas from the court -- items in the church’s own corporate personnel files regarding sexual misconduct of the church’s own hierarchy… (Part II of this blog post is included in the link below.)

Posted by city of angels lady at 12:17 PM

http://cityofangels3.blogspot.com/2007/02/brom-pushes-bankruptcy-to-prevent.html