WATCH: No Justice in Diocese of La Crosse

Elapsed time since Monsignor Burrill’s homosexual misconduct was exposed and Bishop Callahan has failed to remove his priestly faculties

Most Catholics who care about such things (which is still way too few) know all about the case of Fr. James Altman — who got very publicly kicked to the curb by his bishop in La Crosse, William Callahan. All Fr. Altman had done was call out the evil of the child-killing, male-on-male-anal-sex political party, and his bishop sidelined him. Blase Cupich, the temporary archbishop of Chicago, was the one who was pulling the strings on that whole scene, just for the record.

But what many Catholics, even good ones, have not yet realized is Bp. William Callahan is also the bishop of Msgr. Jeffrey Burrill, also known as “Msgr. Grindr.” As a brief refresher, Msgr. Burrill, the highest-ranking cleric in the United States who was not a bishop, who was also the secretary of the U.S. bishops’ conference, was caught red-handed with the homosexual hookup app on his phone — and using it.

And use it he did — according to reports, over a thousand times.

That’s a lot of action, even for a gay man. Yet, as soon as the news broke, the hierarchy circled the wagons around the pervert (one of their own) and not only deflected for him, but protected him. Archbishop José Gómez of Los Angeles, in his capacity as president of the U.S. bishops, immediately released a statement assuring Catholics that no minor was among the thousand sexual hookups Burrill had engaged with.

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