The dam is about to break

CONTINUED: Brad Miner: "As we've seen, the abuse, and to a very great extent, I think, the cover-up, comes from this gay network."

Clark's longstanding embrace of homosexuality earned him a public rebuke from then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, who castigated him for supporting homosexuality.

In late 1990s, Clark allowed Fr. Jim Callan to conduct same-sex weddings until the Vatican discovered and forced Callan out. In 2002, Clark had to place three priests on administrative leave after being threatened with a lawsuit for sex abuse cover-up.

Records show Clark, who routinely officiated at gay Masses, had allowed the priests to remain in active ministry for decades in spite of multiple credible allegations of abuse of teen boys.

The archdiocese of New York, home to almost half the Catholics in the whole state, has a long sordid history of homosexual acceptance on the part of the hierarchy and covering up cases of abuse. At least 80 priests stretching all the way back to Cdl. Francis Spellman's tenure have been publicly accused of sexual predation — most of them of males.

The archdiocese of New York, home to almost half the Catholics in the whole state, has a long sordid history of homosexual acceptance on the part of the hierarchy and covering up cases of abuse.

Spellman was the bishop who ordained homosexual predator Theodore McCarrick who, the next year, began his sexual assaults.

The cases are in fact so many that the archdiocese just last year had to take a $100 million line of credit with CitiBank to begin paying off victims, many of whom had their cases covered up for years and decades under the tenures of Cdls. Terence Cooke and Edward Egan, something that Cdl. Timothy Dolan has been criticized for being slow to address.

Critics say he has exacerbated the homosexual clergy plague by cozying up to pro-gay elements in the Church.

He has been leading the charge among New York's bishops in fighting against victims being able to come forward — by opposing the New York state legislature's push to expand the statute of limitations for reporting sex abuse.

Church Militant interviewed a well-informed source who wanted to remain anonymous for fear of retribution.

Michael Voris: A whole network is built that protects this sort of secret, double-life infrastructure, gay mafia that runs the archdiocese.

Anonymous source: Yes, yes — that is absolutely true.

Shuffling over to the diocese of Buffalo, current bishop Richard Malone recently went on a tirade against Catholics withholding donations to the diocese because of sexual abuse allegations and bishops covering it up.

And for the record, his complaints came while he was vacationing on Cape Cod. He said:

Regarding the Catholic Charities Appeal, though, I do not understand, and cannot accept, the logic behind the decision on the part of some individuals to express their dismay by holding back on their contributions to Catholic Charities. ... My heartfelt thanks to those of you who did not succumb to such unfortunate and, I believe, flawed thinking.

Malone also said that his vacation time had been "clouded by the challenges we are facing right now in our diocese."

At least 90 people have applied for financial compensation through the diocese's pay-out program for clerical sex abuse victims — which was rolled out in March 2018. Sixty-five priests in the diocese of Buffalo stand accused of sexual misconduct.

In late May and early June, there were calls for Bp. Malone to resign, after investigative reports by Buffalo's ABC affiliate shed light on decades of negligence and cover-up by the diocese. The three-part investigation highlighted the cover-up under Bp. Edward Head, who led the diocese from 1972 to 1995 and the continued cover-up under Bp. Henry Mansell, from 1995 to 2003.

In a 10-minute interview on Feb. 27 this year, retired Buffalo diocesan priest Norbert Orsolits admitted sexually abusing "probably dozens" of underaged males, after one alleged victim had accused him publicly.

A few priests from Buffalo also appeared in the Pennsylvania grand jury report.

In one glaring case, Fr. Dennis Riter has three male victims who've given evidence of his abuse to the diocese. A witness to one of Riter's assaults informed the diocese by letter in the early 1990s and the diocese swept it under the rug. The victim was a 10-year-old who had come running out of a rectory with semen on his face and chest.

Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio of the diocese of Brooklyn, who was consecrated by then-Archbishop Theodore McCarrick in 1996, has also resisted reforms in New York state's statute of limitations for reporting sexual abuse.

In 2016, New York State Assemblywoman Margaret Markey claimed DiMarzio offered her a $5,000 bribe if she would pull her support for the proposed legislation that would increase the statute of limitations for reporting sex abuse — the same legislation Dolan is vigorously campaigning against.

The next year, in 2017, the diocese, together with the archdiocese of New York, paid out $1.8 million to six victims of a total of eight priests implicated in the lawsuit.

In 2002, two lawsuits were filed against the diocese, which were both lost on appeal due to the statute of limitations.

Bishop John Barres, current bishop of Rockville Centre, was highlighted in the Pennsylvania grand jury report for his time as bishop of Allentown from 2009 to 2017.

It was during his time as bishop that accusations against the notorious Fr. Thomas Benestad resurfaced, and according to the grand jury report, Barres made no attempt to remove Benestad from ministry.

Pennsylvania grand jury report: "The Diocese elected to rely on Benestad’s word rather than the word of the victims and the determinations of law enforcement. No attempt was made to remove Benestad from ministry. Benestad was granted retirement, resides in Boca Raton, Florida, and assists with a local parish."

Benestad is the priest singled about Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro during his Tuesday press conference for rinsing out the mouth of a 9-year-old boy with holy water after oral sex.

As we've seen, the abuse, and to a very great extent, I think, the cover-up, comes from this gay network.

In February 2018, a report called "Hidden Disgrace II" was released by lawyers, outlining the abuse of 51 priests, following a 2003 Suffolk County grand jury investigation, which took place under the tenure of recently retired Bp. William Murphy — Barres' predecessor.

Turning to the diocese of Syracuse, also riddled with multiple sex abuse settlements, Bp. Robert Cunningham announced in February, following the model of the New York archdiocese, that it was launching a victims compensation program for 76 victims of priestly abuse.

Priests were routinely shuffled around even after credible accusations of sexual abuse.

For instance, Fr. James Quinn was accused of repeatedly molesting a 13-year-old boy during Catholic Youth Organization trips in the 1960s, where he would get the boy drunk and violate him when he was unable to resist. The victim sued the Syracuse diocese in 2003, but a court barred the lawsuit over the statute of limitations. The diocese then reinstated Fr. Quinn after an internal investigation revealed "insufficient evidence."

Another victim, raped more than 200 times by Fr. Thomas Neary when he was 10 years old, sued the Syracuse diocese in 2011. The rapes happened in the boy's own bedroom while his parents were home, the priest telling his parents not to worry if he heard the boy crying.

The priest was supposedly there to offer counseling to the boy on the priesthood and told the parents the boy was crying because "the priesthood is hard."

It turned out Neary had many more male victims, the total number remaining unknown, but in at least eight cases, when the victims approached Bp. James Moynihan privately to share their stories of abuse, Moynihan gave each of them the same line: You're the only one who has ever come forward about abuse by Fr. Neary.

In 2015, after Bp. Cunningham became head of Syracuse, a group of outraged Catholics petitioned Rome to force Cunningham to resign because of his callous attitude towards sex abuse victims. It became public that Cunningham had said during a 2011 sex abuse deposition, when asked whether he thought boys being raped by priests were sinning, Cunningham answered, "The boy is culpable."

His words caused such uproar that nearly 90,000 signed a petition to Pope Francis, urging him to remove the bishop from the diocese. Cunningham never resigned and remains the bishop of Syracuse to this day, each year making appeals to the laity to give millions of dollars to his diocese.

Bishop Cunningham: "This weekend, as you’re preparing for Mass as a family, I encourage you to experience a greater love by giving to the Hope Appeal. Thank you for answering your call to serve during this year of the family."

The diocese of Ogdensburg is also tainted by scandal, with multiple priests over the course of decades outed as sex abusers.

Since 1950, 56 people, 37 of them minors at the time, have accused priests of sexually abusing them — with a total of $3 million paid out in sex abuse settlements and counseling for victims.

Ogdensburg has also launched its own victims' compensation fund, announced earlier this spring, agreeing to pay victims in exchange for their promise that they won't sue the diocese.