Four years ago, the course of my life changed and went in a direction I could never have imagined. On Sept. 14, 2018, the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, a small group of my parishioners at Resurrection Parish in Chicago and I prayed prayers of deliverance over my predecessor’s rainbow banner. We … Read more
Your Holiness: This letter to you is long overdue. In August 2018, I wrote you a letter to address the sexual predation crisis that is destroying our Church. As cited in my letter of Aug. 28, 2018, I myself am the victim of a homosexual priest predator. Father Lawrence Cozzi abused me 40 years ago … Read more
Four years have passed, yet the numerous victims of former-cardinal Theodore McCarrick’s numerous victims have seen little, if any, justice. In the aftermath of The New York Times’ watershed article on the McCarrick scandal, published June 20, 2018, Rome summarily wrote off all ties to the now-disgraced McCarrick. And four years have painfully progressed, with the Holy See offering mere lip service … Read more
On Nov. 15, after my arrival at the Baltimore Marriott Waterfront for Church Militant’s “Bishops: Enough Is Enough” rally, I took a short walk with Stephen Brady, head of the watchdog group The Roman Catholic Faithful, from the Marriott to a seafood restaurant. The Oceanaire, just a block away, was advertised as serving great crab cakes. Being in Baltimore, I … Read more
Bishops silent as America faces a crossroads On Pentecost Sunday morning, as report after report of rioting and looting flashed across the TV from a night of bedlam, the absence of God, the absence of the Church or any of its prelates was conspicuous. Where were the TV Evangelicals weighing in on how looting and burning people … Read more
His Holiness: Francis I Domus Sanctae Marthae Vatican City 00120 August 28, 2018 Your Holiness: I write this letter as a priest and as a pastor, but also as the victim of child sexual abuse. In this letter, I make an appeal to you to act as Peter and intervene and end the control of … Read more