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As we now approach our tenth year, we would like to thank everyone for making 2013 the best year ever for TheMediaReport.com! Our readership continues to grow dramatically, thanks to you. 2013 was even better than the last, and we look forward to an even better 2014!
There were a lot of important stories in the past year. Between Church-suing lawyer Jeff Anderson’s silly “stuntsuit” against the Vatican finally being dropped and Cardinal Timothy Dolan being vindicated against bogus charges of “shielding” money from abuse victims, it was an eventful 12 months. So we figured we would close out the year with a look at our most compelling posts of 2013.
#5 ‘We’ll Say You Touched Us’: Robbers Attempt to Extort Priest With Threat of Abuse Claim
It is open season on Catholic priests today. Any accusation, threat, or mere hint of abuse from 50 years ago is enough to destroy a priest’s reputation and vault him out of the priesthood forever.
No story more exemplified this than a shocking story out of Chicago, where two men walked into a sacristy and demanded cash from an elderly priest. They accompanied their demand for money with an ominous threat:
“We’ll say you touched us, read the paper, they’ll believe us.”
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