You know, I haven’t seen any proposed State or Federal Legislation regarding Catholic Canon Law, only Sharia Law. Have you?

Ojeda is accused in a seven-count complaint of molesting a girl who was younger than 14 while he worked at parishes in Woodland and Redding.

On Tuesday, the prosecution’s expert witness in canonical law said Nondorf and Sheehan were acting in “external” and not spiritual capacities when they confronted Ojeda two years ago about the sexual abuse allegations that had been made against him. “The topic is not the priest’s spiritual life, but information that would have come to the bishop … and his responsibilities to act and report it to the civil authorities,” the witness, Monsignor Steven Callahan, testified.

The conversation “had nothing to do with spiritual growth and development and everything to do with an allegation brought to diocesan authorities that they needed to take action on,” said Callahan, who is vicar general of the Roman Catholic Diocese of San Diego.

The testimony came in the third day of the pretrial hearing on a motion by Ortiz to suppress Ojeda’s statements to Nondorf and Sheehan on Nov. 30, 2011, when they visited him in Redding with the purpose of bringing him back to Sacramento to face charges.

Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/2013/07/03/5541348/priest-will-learn-soon-if-statement.html#storylink=cpy