Buffalo bishop preached transparency. Secret recordings made by a whistleblower suggest a different agenda.
Bishop Richard Malone, the embattled spiritual leader of the Diocese of Buffalo, is back on the defensive after a second whistleblower came forward on Wednesday, armed with hours of secret recordings that show the bishop navigating what he called “a true crisis situation” for his administration.
“I am here to serve the people of Western New York the way I can,” said Biernat, who agreed to take a leave of absence from the diocese in August and has until recently lived in the bishop’s official residence. “I feel I have a responsibility to come forward and ask Bishop Malone to please resign. For the love of God and for the sake of your people here, please resign.”
In a previous interview with ABC News, Malone largely defended his leadership amid the crisis but offered one major mea culpa, telling correspondent David Wright that he had made “mistakes” in his handling of allegations of sexual misconduct against clergy made by adults. After Bojanowski rebuffed those advances, he wrote, Nowak retaliated against him, allegedly searching through personal items in Bojanowski’s apartment and circulating a snapshot of a letter between Bojanowski and Biernat, who are close friends, in an apparent attempt to suggest a sexual relationship between them, which both Bojanowski and Biernat deny. When reached by ABC News, Nowak declined to comment.
“The simple version here is we've got victims and we have a perpetrator, and the perpetrator is Jeff Nowak, and he's done things that are clearly wrong,” Malone said in March. “And I think he's a sick puppy.” In discussing the potential harm Nowak could cause the church, Malone called Nowak “dangerous,” claimed that “Jeff’s out to get us all” and asked Biernat if he would be able to “stay away from the Jeff thing with the media,” referring to the entire sordid tale as “a can of worms,” an “atom bomb,” and “a disaster” that had sparked a full-blown existential crisis inside the chancery.
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