New Jersey
Star-Ledger
August 30, 2020
By Mark White
This spring, I received a letter from my boss ordering me to take down my blog or lose my job.
Workers all over the country have found themselves in this kind of situation. But I may yet become the first Catholic priest removed for blogging.
Until recently, I was the pastor of two parishes in southwest Virginia, one in Martinsville and the other in Rocky Mount. I love my work and my community of some 800 families. I began blogging in 2008 as an additional way of reaching the faithful. For the first decade, my digital homilies and musings attracted little attention outside my parishes.
In 2018, though, like many Catholics, I was shaken when news emerged of sexual abuse by Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, the archbishop of Washington.
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