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#Knoxville's Bishop Richard Stika Is Stepping Down | The Vortex

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So long, Bp. Richard Stika.

Last week, Knoxville Bp. Richard Stika announced his retirement after a lengthy Vatican investigation and extensive news coverage over his alleged cover-up of a rape. Leading the charge in that news coverage was Church Militant, as insiders were providing us much information on his alleged cover-up of a rape.

While The Pillar was first to break the story, for which they deserve credit, Church Militant was the only one to air a video documentary and the only one to expose the texts exchanged between the perpetrator and the victim — a smoking gun that exposed the bishop as profusely lying and made the perpetrator's involvement undeniable.

*Our Church Militant Spotlight investigation, part 1 and part 2, was described as an "earthquake" in the diocese of Knoxville*, and was soon followed not only by the Vatican investigation but also by local newspapers finally covering the story (after remaining deafeningly silent for months).

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