Check this portion of a statement just released which continues to hold former Bishop Finn accountable for a Kansas City Catholic crisis . . .
SNAP: Victims blast Catholic officials for honoring criminal
Under the headline “Hometown Team,” the latest issue of Catholic St. Louis portrays Bishop Robert Finn as one of several local priest who have climbed the clerical ladder to become prelates. But it makes no mention of Finn’s status as the only US bishop to be convicted for concealing evidence of child sex crimes from police and prosecutors.
In a nutshell, this is one key reason why the clergy sex abuse and cover up scandal keeps roiling the church: because those who endanger kids, hide predators, stonewall prosecutors, deceive parishioners are almost never defrocked, demoted, disciplined or even denounced by their Catholic colleagues or supervisors.
Ignoring wrongdoing essentially encourages more wrongdoing.
Archbishop Robert Carlson should apologize for the deceptive and hurtful portrayal of Bishop Finn as some kind of “local boy who makes good.” And he should discipline the editor of Catholic St. Louis.
Finn is a criminal. Pretending otherwise rubs even more salt into the already deep and still fresh wounds of Catholics whose kids were hurt by Finn’s priests, especially those whose daughters were shrewdly turned into child pornography pictures during the months Finn refused to give Fr. Shawn Ratigan’s huge photo collection of child pornography to the police. (Imagine how those moms and dads feel seeing their convicted bishop put forward as some sort of hero or role model in a Catholic publication.)
Last year, three years after having been found guilty, Finn voluntarily resigned as head of the Kansas City diocese. But he remains a bishop with all of the salary, benefits, honors and status that title and position confers. He has faced no disciplinary action for his law-breaking . . .
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Read the whole thing here . . . You decide . . .
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ReplyDeleteOnce again SNAP alters the facts of the case to try to make themselves relevant. Legally speaking, Finn is not a criminal. The charges were misdemeanors and he was found NOT guilty of the ones involving pictures and guilty of a failure to report charge. That charge was later expunged from his record so in a legal sense, he was never convicted of anything. It's also worth noting that there was never an accusation of child abuse with Ratigan during that time that Finn "failed to report." There was nothing to report. Nor did Finn ever refuse to give photos to the police. As Finn is no longer a public figure, were I an attorney, I would offer to file a libel suit against SNAP on the house.
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