A Catholic priest resigned after a news site used cell phone location data to track his phone
AP Photo/Jeff Chiu Yesterday a Catholic new site called the Pillar published a story which resulted in the resignation of Monsignor Jeffrey Burrill, the General Secretary of the US Conference of Bishops. Here’s what the Pillar reported: A priest of the Diocese of La Crosse, Wisconsin, he began to work at the bishops’ conference as associate general secretary in February 2016. In that capacity, the priest was charged with helping to coordinate the U.S. bishops’ response to the Church’s 2018 sexual abuse and coercion scandals. But an analysis of app data signals correlated to Burrill’...