Publication: American Spectator

The Unraveling of Wuerl’s Lies
In the latest revelation about Donald Wuerl — that, contrary to his claims of ignorance, he knew about McCarrick’s misconduct for at least 14 years — he emerges as the ...

The Pope’s Laxity Catches-Up With Him
Pope Francis lectured the American bishops this week on their “crisis of credibility” even as his own reputation took another hit in the wake of revelations about one of his ...

Business as Usual in the ‘Church of Nice’
n September of this year, Kenneth Lasch, a retired monsignor from the New Jersey diocese of Paterson, went public with his story of ignored whistle-blowing against a priest still serving ...

At Least 1/3 of Mahony’s Bishops Involved in Abuse or Cover-Up
Click on the bishop's photo in the diagram above to read about their scandal. Former Los Angeles Cardinal Roger Mahony is long retired, but his scandals keep exploding like ...

The Stench From Scranton
Bishop Bambera protects the scandalous while punishing the orthodox. In 2017, homosexual activists celebrated Bishop Joseph Bambera of Scranton, Pennsylvania, for allowing a heretical priest to speak at a Catholic ...

What Begins in Bad Theology Ends in Police Raids
Prosecutors busting into chanceries is the new normal under Pope Francis. Cardinal Daniel DiNardo, whose Galveston-Houston chancery was raided this week by prosecutors in search of abuse-related files, always struck ...

The Stench From CupichChurch
The winds of scandal whipping around the Church’s gay pederasty problem are not dissipating but picking up speed. This is foiling the devious plans of Pope Francis, who deliberately scheduled ...

Why Won’t the Bishops Question McCarrick?
My encounter with Cardinal Joseph Tobin last week was too brief for extensive questioning. I wish that I had had time to ask him why Francesco Castiglione, the Italian actor ...

Reflections on the Bishops in Baltimore
How long can they deny the obvious? As I walked outside the hotel in Baltimore where the bishops gathered last week for their semiannual conference, I noticed a couple of bishops ...

The Bishops Go Bust in Baltimore
The USCCB’s uselessness as an agent of holiness is on display yet again. In the early days of Baltimore, if a Catholic leader had proposed a religious gathering at a ...

What a Web Theodore McCarrick Weaved
And his cronies, even at this late hour, still practice to deceive. Ever since Theodore McCarrick’s exposure as a molester earlier this year, his cronies, patrons, and protectors have downplayed ...

What’s in a Resignation, Church Scandal Edition?
What do the Communist Chinese have to do with this event? I’ll get to that later. But first the news is not that Pope Francis accepted Cardinal Wuerl’s resignation as ...

The Day of Reckoning for Monsignor Rossi and the Hierarchy
Last month I wrote about the reported predatory behavior of Monsignor Walter Rossi, the director of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C., a position to ...

Monsignor Rossi, Wuerl’s Gay Mafioso at the Basilica
Why is this accused gay predator still running the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception? The other day I received a call from a former Catholic University of America student ...

Why Cardinal Wuerl Placed Me on the Basilica’s Most Wanted List
I am systematically revealing his secrets. I learned from a chancery-connected source last week that Washington, D.C. Cardinal Donald Wuerl, choking on his rage at my reporting of his misdeeds, ...

How the Media are Covering-Up for Pope Francis
If the head of any other organisation were guilty of such complicity, he or she would not only be forced to resign but could also end up in the dock ...