In reading about Los Angeles Auxiliary Bishop Gabino Zavala, who resigned after acknowledging he had fathered two children, I recalled an encounter with that very same bishop a few years back that seems, in retrospect, all too predictive. In April 2006, while doing research for my book, What's the Matter With California, I chanced upon a press conference Bishop Zavala was holding at the Downtown LA Cathedral.  The good Bishop surrounded himself with about twenty chubby, confused-looking workers, most of them wearing T-Shirts that read, "Justice for janitors, SEIU local 1877."  They were all part of what was called the "We Are America Coalition." The star speaker was one Dolores Huerta, co-founder of the United Farm Workers. The Bishop explained that on May 1, "International Worker's Day," the Archdiocese of Los Angeles would instruct its parishes to ring their church bells at 5 P.M. "as a symbol of solidarity" with workers and immigrants. I had absolutely no intention of...(Read Full Post)