Former Oklahoma Governor Frank Keating resigned his position as Chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) National Review Board in 2003, owing to his frustration that the bishops were covering up abuse cases that he and the Board were investigating. Having compared secretive bishops to the Mafia, Keating wrote in his letter of resignation, “To resist grand jury subpoenas, to suppress the names of offending clerics, to deny, to obfuscate, to explain away; that is the model of a criminal organization, not my church.”
What Keating and most Catholics do not know is exactly how evil many bishops and priests really are — evil to the point of having people killed. Because of my work as a sex abuse advocate and investigative reporter who, for more than three decades, has reported on the sex trafficking of seminarians, gay orgies in episcopal residences, and other scandalous clerical behavior, I can’t tell you how many times the question has been put to me, “Do you carry?” Anyone familiar with the Lavender Mafia and the work of the late George Neumayr or Stephen Brady knows that a person can end up dead or have their life threatened for confronting and exposing closeted homosexual predator Catholic clergy. Readers of Windswept House, Father Malachi Martin’s masterpiece novel (which he described as a work of “faction,” i.e., a thinly disguised fictional account of factual events and real persons), will be familiar with the ruthless and violent behavior of both high and low-ranking predator clerics in the Church.
Monsignor Francis J. O’Connor was the 44-year-old editor of the weekly newspaper of the Buffalo Diocese whose body was found on March 13, 1966, drowned with fractures to the larynx and hyoid bone in his throat and contusions and abrasions to his scalp. A lay homosexual journalist, Robert Armbruster, who admitted being sexually attracted to O’Connor, along with Monsignor Franklin M. Kelliher, Fathers John Lewandowski, Norbert F. Orsolits, and William F. J. White, were all suspects in the murder. BishopAccountability.org has documented how Lewandowski, Orsolits, and White were later credibly accused of abusing numerous boys between 1962 and 1993. Within two months of the homicide, the Buffalo police were ordered to shut down the investigation owing to what was thought to be pressure on City Hall from Bishop James McNulty. A later investigation in 2023 could not prove beyond a reasonable doubt who killed O’Connor. However, The Buffalo News did report that “the investigation was shut down after a priest or monsignor became a suspect to avoid embarrassing the diocese.”
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