letter on his behalf, and that he considered the matter "closed." In February 2019, Rosica stepped down from the governing boards of University of St. Michael's College in Toronto, St. John Fisher College in New York and University of St. Thomas in Houston following accusations of plagiarism. In March 2019, Rosica went on sabbatical from the Salt and Light Catholic Media Foundation for "several months of rest and renewal." On June 17, 2019, the board of directors of Salt and Light accepted Rosica's resignation as CEO. On June 21, 2019, the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops announced that it retracted Rosica's works published by the CCCB because the works "failed to provide all the appropriate citations, as well as bibliographic references, and did not acknowledge a number of original sources". Rosica said, "I realize that I was not prudent nor vigilant with several of the texts that have surfaced and I will be very vigilant with future texts and compositions. I take full responsibility for my lack of oversight and do not place the blame on anyone else but myself." In 2020, Rosica's plagiarism was found to extend to text that he ghostwrote for Cardinal Marc Ouellet. In 2022, new plagiarism accusations were brought against two new articles published in Il Sismografo, a Vatican-based news aggregator. Literature M.V. Dougherty and Joshua Hochschild: "Magisterial Authority and Theological Authorship: The Harm of Plagiarism in the Practice of Theology." Horizons 48 (2022), pp. 405-55. doi:10.1017/hor.2021.60. References External links Official Salt and Light Catholic Media Foundation Website 1959 births Living people 21st-century Canadian Roman Catholic priests Canadian television personalities Canadian university and college chief executives Congregation of St. Basil Leaders of Christian parachurch organizations Roman Catholic activists People involved in scientific misconduct incidents University of Toronto alumni 20th-century Canadian Roman Catholic priests