Catholic Bishops’ Conference, who was accused of using the app and of hanging out at gay bars and bathhouses.
The reports from the Pillar’s (deeply unethical) investigation led to the resignation of Monsignor Jeffrey Burrill, the former general secretary of the U.S. The Pillar, a conservative Catholic publication used “publicly available data” to track the phone activity of several priests, according to the New York Times. In a recent shitball of a story that’s been continuing to gather shit along its route, cell phone data was used to reveal officials from the Catholic Church - both at the Vatican and in the U.S. While outing queer people is a cruel in any context, it can get far more complicated when the person being outed is a high-ranking Catholic priest.
