>> As a reminder, please join us in our [daily morning Rosary Novena](https://2020nationalnovena.com/optin1598968688164). >> *[Church Militant](https://www.churchmilitantaction.org/) (a 501(c)4 corporation) is responsible for the content of this commentary.* If you also seek the truth, then please consider joining Church Militant today by supporting our work. Sign up for a [Church Militant Premium account](https://www.churchmilitant.com/gopremium) or simply [make a donation](https://www.churchmilitant.com/donate). And now, let's begin with today's Vortex... >> **It all gets so complicated.** >> The problem with creating a cover-up is that you have to keep covering it up. But the more you try to cover something up, the more complicated things get. That's a little lesson that the archdiocese of Detroit and Abp. Allen Vigneron are learning the hard way. >> As the ever-widening scandal of a homosexual clergy network in the archdiocese gets more public, the more reckless and reactionary the archdiocese gets. Some people start growing suspicious. They start asking questions. They start exchanging notes with each other. >> Long gone are the days when Catholics would just accept the word of a man in a collar or with a miter on his head without question. Even the bishops themselves have finally come to that revelation, as senior clergy like New York cardinal Timothy Dolan has admitted publicly — along with other bishops. Put simply, the trust is gone. >> Here in Detroit, people are quickly wisening up, and they are asking questions. As a quick refresher about the Detroit scandal, Fr. Michael Suhy, former pastor of Our Lady of Good Counsel Parish was summarily dismissed by Vigneron, under the pretense that he was stressed and overworked. >> That was a lie, and it was propagated to parishioners by Vigneron's auxiliary bishop, Gerard Battersby. Battersby picked it up from dirty trickster Msgr. Michael Bugarin, who is the one Vigneron sent to tell Fr. Suhy that he was too stressed to remain pastor. Father Suhy had to go because he knew of an allegation of homosexual harassment of a young adult male allegedly by Vigneron's music director, Joe Balistreri — who was captured on undercover video confirming he was both gay and living with his partner. >> In response to Church Militant airing the video, the archdiocese issued a weird statement to the clergy saying Balistreri had "separated" from his positions with the archdiocese of Detroit. But keep your eye on the ball here. The Balistreri scandal is actually a sideshow to all this. Primary Video source and transcript continues here: https://www.churchmilitant.com/video/episode/vortex-covering-up-the-coverup