It's this story, linked in the NCR.
Since you can't prove the transgendered nun story wrong, I tend to believe it, given the connections. That would tend to make most of the rest of it true, as well, unless you can disprove any of it.
You would. The fact that Burke is being attacked from two different directions goes to show that the "controversial" figures tend to be the ones who are standing on the side of truth.