Archdiocese of Chicago’s Moral Bankruptcy Exposed in Abuse Scandal Cover-Up
EWTN News reports (January 27, 2026) that the Archdiocese of Chicago employed Brett Smith (legal name Brett Zagorac) – a man with documented child molestation convictions spanning two decades – as a tutor and substitute teacher in multiple archdiocesan schools since 2024. Despite Smith’s 2005 Indiana child molestation charge, 2016 Chicago Tribune-reported convictions for battery against minors in Schererville (2002) and DuPage County (2005), and 2009 guilty plea for molesting a 5-year-old tutoring victim, the archdiocesan bureaucracy allowed him access to children through what it admits were inadequate background checks. One family has filed a police complaint regarding Smith’s conduct during home tutoring sessions. This institutional failure demonstrates the conciliar sect’s complete abandonment of its divine mandate to protect the innocent.