Catholic anon here, with news about the Catholic Church in the US which MIGHT be significant. The position of General Secretary to the US Conference of Catholic Bishops is quite important.

"Msgr. Jeffrey D. Burrill, the general secretary of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops since November, has resigned from the post after the USCCB "became aware of impending media reports alleging possible improper behavior by Msgr. Burrill," said Archbishop José H. Gomez of Los Angeles, USCCB president.

In a July 20 memo to bishops, Archbishop Gomez said he had accepted Msgr. Burrill's resignation, effective immediately."

BUT WAIT, IT GETS WEIRDER: The General Secretary was outed thanks to investigative journalism by "The Pillar," a website favorably described in this story as "an online outlet that covers the Catholic Church and provides news and analysis." Except that the two clowns who write the stories at The Pillar (Ed Condon and J.D.Flynn) are well known shills for the US Conference of Catholic Bishops! They both used to work for Catholic News Agency, and wrote whatever the bishops told them to. "The Pillar" is a pretty new website.

So now suddenly they're doing investigative reporting and outing the bishops' lackeys? Not likely. I'm smelling controlled opposition here.

'"In a lengthy story posted midday, The Pillar, an online outlet that covers the Catholic Church and provides news and analysis, said Archbishop Gomez's memo came after it had contacted the USCCB and Msgr. Burrill regarding evidence the news outlet claimed to have "of a pattern of sexual misconduct on Burrill's part."

The Pillar claimed it had "found evidence the priest engaged in serial sexual misconduct, while he held a critical oversight role in the Catholic Church's response to the recent spate of sexual abuse and misconduct scandals."

"An analysis of app data signals correlated to Burrill's mobile device shows the priest also visited gay bars and private residences while using a location-based hookup app in numerous cities from 2018 to 2020, even while traveling on assignment for the U.S. bishops' conference," it reported.

Commercially available app signal data, The Pillar said, "does not identify the names of app users, but instead correlates a unique numerical identifier to each mobile device using particular apps."

"Signal data, collected by apps after users consent to data collection, is aggregated and sold by data vendors. It can be analyzed to provide timestamped location data and usage information for each numbered device," The Pillar added.'

https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2021/07/20/usccb-resigns-media-report-jeffrey-burrill-241088