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The Army of God - OC Weekly

How a Monk, an Altar Boy, and a Sex-Abuse Victim Joined Forces to Battle Their Common Enemy: the Catholic Church


By Gustavo Arellano
 OC Weekly

“Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled."

—Mathew 5:6


In 1996, the week before his fall final exams, University of San Diego student Ryan DiMaria called his father to tell him he was going to commit suicide. 

"I told my dad not to worry—I would pay all my bills, deal with all the things that needed to be dealt with. And then I would kill myself in two weeks," he says.â...