A Papal Candidate With Blood On His Hands

Several articles have been published and more will surely appear prior to the upcoming papal conclave. Having lived and studied with five of the ten American cardinal candidates, I have been asked if I thought any of the ten U.S. cardinals might have a chance of being elected the next pope. I responded by saying, “Knowing what I know about them that you will not read in the media, there are some more than others whose election I would strongly oppose.” Having already exposed Cardinals Robert McElroy and Wilton Gregory in previous articles for covering up clerical sexual predation and homosexual misconduct, I thought I should set the record straight about New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan who appears to have received more media coverage over the years than the other candidates.

After more than a decade of waiting in vain for Cardinal Timothy Dolan and the New York Archdiocese to bring clerical abuse victim Tim Murphy’s predator to justice, Tim ended his life in suicide. Beginning in 2003, Murphy began his futile quest of reporting to the New York Archdiocese that accused serial abuser, Father Donald Timone, molested him between the ages of twelve and thirteen. Murphy’s memoir, From Crack to the Cross, recounts how Timone’s abuse left him with lifelong scars, explaining, “At this vulnerable season of adolescence this priest left me mentally crippled, an injury that would last for years and years.” While Murphy’s allegations were clearly documented in Archdiocesan records when Dolan took the helm in 2009, Dolan continued to cover up Timone’s abusive history and hailed him as “a remarkably gentle and holy man.” Neither Murphy’s suicide in 2015, nor the corroborating testimony of two other males whose reports resulted in two six-figure settlements in 2017, compelled Dolan to remove Timone from ministry. More than four years after Murphy’s suicide, it took a New York Times article, “The Church Settled Sexual Abuse Cases Against This Priest. Why Is He Still Saying Mass?” for Dolan to finally remove Timone in August of 2019.

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