The Pillar Investigation of Burrill is Unethical, Homophobic

Even during a period when the bombs dropping on American Catholics fall with escalating and increasingly destructive frequency, the publication of an "investigation" of Msgr. Jeffrey Burrill, the now-former general secretary of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, blasts a crater worth crawling down into for a forensic examination. There are reasons to think it heralds a new and even uglier era in American Catholicism.