{"id":8865,"date":"2025-12-03T23:55:56","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T04:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/laydob.com\/?p=8865"},"modified":"2026-09-14T21:54:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T01:54:21","slug":"fr-ryszard-biernat-is-still-banned-from-ministry-6-years-after-whistleblowing-on-diocese-of-buffalo-officials-the-officials-should-face-accountability-as-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/laydob.com\/?p=8865","title":{"rendered":"Fr. Ryszard Biernat is still banned from ministry 6 years after whistleblowing on Diocese of Buffalo officials; the officials should face accountability as well"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Diocese of Buffalo, currently led by Bishop Michael Fisher, has sadistically isolated one of its priests for six long years for daring to publicly expose its secret system of operations which protected sexual predator priests. Those operations relied on the complicity of several diocesan officials still leading us TODAY who have never faced accountability. Some have even received diocesan honors. This is terrifying. If Father Ryszard Biernat has to face accountability for his decisions, these officials should too.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

What the Whistleblower Revealed<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In September 2019, as priest-secretary to the bishop and vice-chancellor of the diocese, Father Biernat gave local news media evidence of Bishop Richard Malone\u2019s continued failure to properly remove priests from ministry<\/a> who were credibly accused of sexual predatory behavior (and violating the seal of the confessional on one case). Bishop Malone responded to the whistleblowing by  suspending Father Biernat<\/a> from all public ministry on December 3, 2019, the day before Bishop Malone resigned in disgrace. Bishop Fisher maintains that penalty against Father Biernat<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n

\n
\"\"
In the photo: A typical Twitter comment on the announcement of Bishop Malone’s Penal Remedy removing Fr. Biernat’s priestly faculties.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n
\n\n\n\n

But it was a follow-up allegation from Father Biernat that same day in 2019 that gave the public a harrowing look into what appeared to be a system of operations which protected sexual predator priests. That allegation was the public revelation of how diocesan officials handled Father Biernat’s own report of sexual abuse at the hands of a diocesan priest back in 2003 when he was a seminarian. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rather than investigate the seminarian’s allegation when it was reported in early 2004, Auxiliary Bishop Edward Grosz<\/strong> allegedly threatened seminarian Biernat with blackballing him from ever becoming a priest if he reported the incident to anyone. The WKBW televised report<\/a> below is the very news report the State Attorney General’s Office referenced in their interrogation of Bishops Malone and Grosz a couple months later. It is important to watch this 5-minute video to understand the gravity of his allegations. Warning: Explicit content.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n