[Catholic Caucus] Cardinal McElroy asks Vatican to laicize whistleblower priest claiming DC sex abuse cover-up

[Catholic Caucus] Cardinal McElroy asks Vatican to laicize whistleblower priest claiming DC sex abuse cover-upFr. Michael Briese says Cdl. McElroy never refuted his allegations of abuse cover-ups, instead threatening laicization unless he removed blog posts exposing DC clergy scandals. Cardinal Robert McElroy of Washington, D.C., is seeking to laicize Father Michael Briese, a whistleblower archdiocesan priest, for refusing to take down blog posts detailing allegations that two priests who remain in good standing with the archdiocese, Father Adam Park and Father Carter Griffin, had sexually abused seminarians as well as allegations of a cover-up of the allegations by both McElroy...