(LifeSiteNews) — A webinar with clerical plagiarist Father Thomas Rosica has been cancelled.
A spokesman for the Jesuits of Canada has confirmed that Rosica’s lecture will not take place as advertised.
“We confirm that the webinar in which Fr. Thomas Rosica, CSB, was scheduled to participate in January has been cancelled; Fr Rosica was no longer available,” said José Sánchez by email.
“We will have no further comment.”
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The talk, entitled “Discerning and Re-imagining the Church Through the Lenses of Matthew’s Gospel” and sponsored by the Jesuits of Canada, was originally scheduled to take place on January 17. On Friday, December 16, the day LifeSiteNews reported on Rosica’s speaking engagement, a person enrolled in the online event received an email saying that the Basilian priest was “unable to present his webinar” for “reasons beyond his control.”
“We are forced to cancel the session,” a spokesman for the Jesuits of Canada wrote. “Please accept our apologies.”
This email was sent after LifeSiteNews began making inquiries.
Rosica, whose soaring career as a Catholic communicator was shot down by 2019 discoveries that he had engaged in plagiarism for decades, has been enjoying a renaissance of late as Canadian priests invited their fellow cleric to present lectures and missions to the laity. However, this October, a professor who has continued to monitor Rosica’s published work disclosed to the Catholic News Agency evidence that he had found in three recent articles that the priest had plagiarized again.