'Sodomy' book author exposes Santa Rosa bishop, priest

Randy Engel's soon-to-be released, 1318-page book The Rite of Sodomy: Homosexuality and the Roman Catholic Church promises to be one of the most controversial books in some time. The author provides Matt C. Abbott with some advance material from the book, which offers incriminating material on Santa Rosa Bishop Daniel F. Walsh and Father Xavier Ochoa:

Santa Rosa Bishop Daniel F. Walsh's complicity in the escape to Mexico of Father Xavier Ochoa, accused of the sexual molestation of a 12-year-old altar boy in Sonoma County, should come as no surprise to Catholics who have followed Walsh's early clerical career as vicar general and auxiliary bishop under Archbishop John R. Quinn of San Francisco.

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