The Pillar Controversy: A List of Problems

It’s possible that The Pillar has now opened a pandora’s box. They didn’t create the monsters in it, but they may be remembered as the journalists who opened the lid.

Those of you who are in any way connected to Catholic social media have probably been, like me, inundated with “takes” on the recent article in The Pillar on a top USCCB official’s use of Grindr while leading responses to the clergy abuse crisis. The piece drew on data harvested from the app (probably unknown to most users) and used the data to target t…