Former Vatican Spokesman Caught in Serial Plagiarism

Dorothy Cummings McLean revealed on February 15 that Fr. Thomas Rosica had plagiarized large sections of a February 8 Von Hügel Institute lecture at Cambridge University, which turned out to be a cut-and-paste hodgepodge of unattributed texts from Cardinal Edwin O’Brien, Gregory K. Hillis, Fr. Thomas Reese, Cardinal Walter Kasper, and Fr. James Martin. Soon after, First Things editor Matthew Schmitz and others discovered a long trail of plagiarized texts dating back some 15 years. Schmitz tweeted out passages of Rosica’s writings and speeches side-by-side with the original texts, highlighting the extensive blocks of directly copied material. -- More...