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Monday, August 15, 2011

"Bishop in Missouri Waited Months to Report Priest, Stirring Parishioners’ Rage" by Laurie Goodstein/NY Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/15/us/15bishop.html

..."But a painfully fresh case is devastating Catholics in Kansas City, Mo., where a priest, who was arrested in May, has been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of taking indecent photographs of young girls, most recently during an Easter egg hunt just four months ago.
Bishop Robert Finn of the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph
has acknowledged that he knew of the existence of photographs last December but did not turn them over to the police until May.
...“All these parishioners just feel so betrayed, because we knew nothing,” said Thu Meng, whose daughter attended the preschool in Father Ratigan’s last parish. “And we were welcoming this guy into our homes, asking him to come bless this or that. They saw all these signs, and they didn’t do anything.”
The case has generated fury at a bishop who was already a polarizing figure in his diocese, and there are widespread calls for him to resign or even to be prosecuted. Parishioners started a
Facebook page called “Bishop Finn Must Go” and are circulating a petition. An editorial in The Kansas City Star in June calling for the bishop to step down concluded that prosecutors must “actively pursue all relevant criminal charges” against everyone involved. "

1 comment:

Unknown said...

If you are a Catholic, and you don't actively protest the rampant child rape by priests in the Catholic church, you are a part of the problem, and someday, God will ask you why.