Almost ten years after Dominican Father Thomas Doyle and I were removed from ministry for exposing clerical sexual abuse and homosexual misconduct in the Catholic Church “without recourse to any form of due process,” I decided to write a screenplay entitled, “Den of Iniquity,” about: 1) The non-consensual sexual abuse of minors and vulnerable adults which is carried out mainly by homosexually oriented clergy as documented by researchers like Father Dariusz Oko, Father Paul Sullins, Swiss Bishop Marian Eleganti, and the late psychotherapist Richard Sipe; and 2) The problem of consensual clerical homosexual misconduct and cover-ups involving popes, bishops, priests, and seminarians, most of whom were sexually active before and after their ordinations.
Unlike most of my writing, which is factual, Den of Iniquity is a work of “faction,” i.e., a creative text that blends real-life historical facts with invented fictional storytelling.
The plot deals with a Marine Corps veteran who, unjustly dismissed from a Catholic seminary after being sexually assaulted, teams up with an attractive Jewish lawyer to uncover a trail of sex trafficking and the murder of an illegal immigrant that threatens a cardinal’s hopes of being elected the next pope.
A notable work of faction is Windswept House by Jesuit Father Malachi Martin, who used real-life events reported to him about Chicago Cardinal Joseph Bernardin, just like I use events involving prelates whom I have learned are guilty of sexual abuse, cover-ups, and reprisals. A previous article, “The Truth about Bernardin and ‘Agnes’,” documented how Chicago Cardinal Joseph Bernardin (when he was a young priest in Charleston, SC) and his Bishop, John Joyce Russell, not only satanically abused a young girl whom Martin called “Agnes,” but also how Bernardin abused several young men who are identified by Brother Michael Dimond in his article entitled, “Was the most powerful ‘Cardinal’ in America after Vatican II a secret Satanist?“
While Malachi Martin was inspired by Cardinal Bernardin to write Windswept House, I was inspired by the lives of prelates like Cardinal Roger Mahony, the late ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, Cardinal Edwin O’Brien, Cardinal Timothy Dolan, and Archbishop George Lucas to create the character of the antagonist, “Cardinal Edwin McCoy.”
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