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Last week, Knoxville Bp. Richard Stika announced his retirement after a lengthy Vatican investigation and extensive news coverage over his alleged cover-up of a rape. Leading the charge in that news coverage was Church Militant, as insiders were providing us much information on his alleged cover-up of a rape.
While The Pillar was first to break the story, for which they deserve credit, Church Militant was the only one to air a video documentary and the only one to expose the texts exchanged between the perpetrator and the victim — a smoking gun that exposed the bishop as profusely lying and made the perpetrator's involvement undeniable.
Our Church Militant Spotlight investigation was described as an "earthquake" in the diocese of Knoxville, and was soon followed not only by the Vatican investigation but also by local newspapers finally covering the story (after remaining deafeningly silent for months).
Our Spotlight investigation was described as an 'earthquake' in the diocese of Knoxville.
We forced their hand as well as the Vatican. In a despicable move, Stika actually flipped the story and said the victim was the aggressor, a position that once again, too many Catholics were willing to accept solely because the bishop said it and he's a bishop.
Some people never learn, because accepting the facts destabilizes their world. Tribe or truth, as they say — and that happens all over the Church, including in "rad trad" circles too, who are now being massively embarrassed in story after story where they chose the wrong side simply because of the Latin Mass.
Their narrow worldview cannot accept that TLM priests and bishops can also be scoundrels. And for those in the trad media, your credibility is beyond shot.
Church Militant has been correct in every single case we have reported on regarding the evil present among some in the trad community, just as we're right in the Stika case. Again, for too many, they choose tribe over truth, an anti-Catholic position if there ever was one. More on all that in a later Vortex.
But back to Stika: We are now going to play for you Part I of our investigation, which helped result in his no longer being the bishop in Knoxville. Part II will be linked down below.
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TRANSCRIPT
Last week, Knoxville Bp. Richard Stika announced his retirement after a lengthy Vatican investigation and extensive news coverage over his alleged cover-up of a rape. Leading the charge in that news coverage was Church Militant, as insiders were providing us much information on his alleged cover-up of a rape.
While The Pillar was first to break the story, for which they deserve credit, Church Militant was the only one to air a video documentary and the only one to expose the texts exchanged between the perpetrator and the victim — a smoking gun that exposed the bishop as profusely lying and made the perpetrator's involvement undeniable.
Our Church Militant Spotlight investigation was described as an "earthquake" in the diocese of Knoxville, and was soon followed not only by the Vatican investigation but also by local newspapers finally covering the story (after remaining deafeningly silent for months).
Our Spotlight investigation was described as an 'earthquake' in the diocese of Knoxville.
We forced their hand as well as the Vatican. In a despicable move, Stika actually flipped the story and said the victim was the aggressor, a position that once again, too many Catholics were willing to accept solely because the bishop said it and he's a bishop.
Some people never learn, because accepting the facts destabilizes their world. Tribe or truth, as they say — and that happens all over the Church, including in "rad trad" circles too, who are now being massively embarrassed in story after story where they chose the wrong side simply because of the Latin Mass.
Their narrow worldview cannot accept that TLM priests and bishops can also be scoundrels. And for those in the trad media, your credibility is beyond shot.
Church Militant has been correct in every single case we have reported on regarding the evil present among some in the trad community, just as we're right in the Stika case. Again, for too many, they choose tribe over truth, an anti-Catholic position if there ever was one. More on all that in a later Vortex.
But back to Stika: We are now going to play for you Part I of our investigation, which helped result in his no longer being the bishop in Knoxville. Part II will be linked down below.