TKC BREAKING NEWS!!! SNAP FEARS BISHOP FINN IS TAKING THE KANSAS CITY CATHOLIC DIOCESE TOWARD BANKRUPTCY!!!
This bit of Sunday news seems appropriate for so many Kansas City faithful afraid about losing even more cash.
To wit . . .
CHECK OUT KANSAS CITY AREA CATHOLIC FEAR OF BISHOP FINN MOVING HIS BELEAGUERED FLOCK TOWARD BANKRUPTCY!!!
The money quote:
"SNAP believes Finn is wasting money and is considering seeking bankruptcy protection."
Check the presser as Kansas City Catholics pray that
Victims urge bishop “avoid bankruptcy”
Group believes that KC’s Finn is considering it
But Finn’s goal, SNAP says, is to “maintain secrecy”
He wants to stop disclosures & trials, self help group feels
Eight US Catholics dioceses have sought Chapter 11 protection
SNAP to Finn: “First, open your books to an independent auditor”
And it says Catholic officials should, if need be, seek funds elsewhere
“Before acting, at least hold open meetings with your flock,” group asks
WHAT
As church-goers leave mass, clergy sex abuse victims will hand out leaflets to them. The fliers list recent wasteful spending by Catholic officials, and publicly prod KC’s Catholic bishop to
--avoid the temptation to seek bankruptcy protection,
--let an independent auditor examine diocesan finances,
--if need be, seek funds and loans elsewhere to settle clergy sex cases, and
--hold a series of meetings with parishioners across the diocese before considering Chapter 11.
WHEN:
Sunday, Nov. 25 at 6:10 PM
WHERE:
Outside the Cathedral of Immaculate Conception, 416 W 12th Street (corner of Broadway & 11th in downtown Kansas City, MO
WHO:
Two-three clergy sex abuse victims who belong to a support group called SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAPnetwork.org)
WHY
Controversial Bishop Robert Finn’s KC Catholic diocese is in the midst of its annual fundraising appeal. Yet SNAP believes Finn is wasting money and is considering seeking bankruptcy protection. His goal, they contend, is to prevent discovery and trials that would expose more wrongdoing by Finn and his top aides.
At least two dozen pending clergy sex abuse and cover up cases are pending. Some involve recent crimes and other misdeeds regarding Fr. Shawn Ratigan and could prove to be very expensive and embarrassing for top local KC Catholic officials.
In light of these facts, SNAP fears that Finn may soon seek Chapter 11 protection.
SNAP contends that Finn has wasted and is wasting funds in various ways. (At one court hearing last week, for instance, ten defense lawyers appeared to represent church officials. And in September, Finn announced he’d spent $1.39 million defending himself and his diocese in just one criminal case.)
http://ncronline.org/news/faith-parish/kansas-city-cases-cost-diocese-139-million-legal-fees
But SNAP seriously doubts that the diocese is hurting financially. Until Finn “truly comes clean” about all church finances – stocks, bonds, property, insurance coverage and other assets – SNAP feels it is naïve for parishioners and the public to believe any cries of “poverty” by church officials.
The group feels that talk of “tough finances” by church officials is often “posturing” designed to deter victims from coming forward and tricking victims in litigation into settling for small sums.
If the diocese becomes short on funds, SNAP believes Finn should exhaust all other means of raising or borrowing money to resolve the clergy sex abuse cases. (In 2002, Boston’s Cardinal Bernard Law borrowed millions from a fraternal Catholic men’s group to settle with hundreds of victims.)
SNAP wants Finn to (1) let truly independent auditors examine church finances, (2) if need be, borrow and raise additional funds to fairly resolve all sex abuse cases, and, (3) if he’s considering Chapter 11, to hold open public meetings in each region (“deaneries”) across the diocese, giving Catholics an opportunity to voice their concerns about the process.
Other dioceses have sought bankruptcy protection, including Phoenix, Spokane, Davenport and San Diego. The Milwaukee archdiocese is in Chapter 11 right now.
Last year, the New York-based Christian Brothers, a large Catholic religious order, became the latest Catholic institution to declare bankruptcy, in response to clergy sex abuse and cover up cases in Washington state.
CONTACT
David Clohessy, SNAP Executive Director, SNAPclohessy@aol.com, Barbara Dorris, SNAP Outreach Director, SNAPdorris@gmail.com
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SNAP complains a lot but on this one they may have a point. The church is hurting financially.
ReplyDeleteHow long you going to keep milking this guy for eyeballs. Enough already.
ReplyDeleteSNAP lost and they don't have a great bargaining position.
ReplyDeleteThis jerk again? New material please.
ReplyDeleteTony why not just do porn. At least it would be exciting.
ReplyDeleteA demand for more bewbs! Seems like you have enough there in KC.
ReplyDeleteWelp it is plain to see the Pope don't give a crap about the Catholic people in KC area
ReplyDeleteSNAP is like a guy who just had the shit kicked out of him and then tries to pick a fight again while the guy is walking away.
ReplyDeleteSNAP is nothing but pimps for law firms. Did the asbestos suits not pay enough?
Good for SNAP. At least some organization is standing up to these perverts and pervert protectors.
ReplyDeleteStart making them start selling off the millions of dollars of real estate that they own in this town.
How long are catholics going to put up with this idiot,Finn?
Tony fumbles the SNAP again!
ReplyDeleteOkay, that one was funny. Period.
ReplyDeleteMaybe Finn should get together with Sly and the whole mess can go bankrupt together!
ReplyDeleteWorld class doesn't even begin to describe it.
Screw SNAP. Since when do they care about the financial health of the Church? I think they're a bunch of attention getters. And Tony rolls over for em every time they send him an email.
ReplyDeleteThe guy at wnbtv said two weeks ago finn's gone sometime after xmas, no later tahn easter. rome will make up the difference in the meantime. jut wait.
ReplyDeleteFor all you SNAP haters why not check them out and then see if your right about their intentions. http://www.snapnetwork.org/
ReplyDeleteFinn has done a lot of damage to his Church. Maybe it's time for him to resign, and hopefully take SNAP with him.
ReplyDeleteDear your honor:
ReplyDeleteI would like to place the first bid for the big (Failed) church on 12th street: $100 (American).
I'm not wild about SNAP or their methods but Finn is one evil son of a bitch who doesn't care about the Church, its members, or the children he failed to protect. Robert Finn cares only about Robert Finn. If the Pope doesn't get this cancerous piece of shit bishop out if our church, the diocese will probably indeed go bankrupt from lack of donations because of disgust for Finn and legal bills to defend these perverts. Finn needs to go out of the clergy ASAP. He can go to Hell after he dies.
ReplyDeleteFeel the same way about Mayor Sly and Kansas City. This town is doomed.
ReplyDeleteFinn is a convicted pedophile, nothing more. Oh wait, you don't call the getaway driver a bank robber, just the triggerman? I can't speak for SNAP one way or another, other than to say they aren't a bunch of known pedophiles, like the priests and bishop of KC/St. Joe.
ReplyDeleteReally? Didn't David Clohessy fail to call the cops on his priest-brother? Didn't Barbara Blaine write a glowing letter of praise before he was sentenced for child porn on behalf of their "go-to" psychologist?
ReplyDeleteDoesn't that, by your very definition, make the top two principals of SNAP pedophiles as well?
Or is your sauce only for the goose?
Father O'Malley was getting new tires on the parish minivan. When the tire man gave him the keys, he asked: "Are those tires on tight me boy?" The man answered: "Padre, them tires are on tighter than an alter boy’s asshole." Father O’Malley replied: "In that case me boy, would tighten them a wee bit more?"
ReplyDeleteIt's pretty tiresome listening to the apologists attack SNAP, as if that changes anything. If David Clohessy failed to report a crime, he is a criminal. If Barbara Blaine wrote in defense of a child porn downloader, she is a hypocrite. Okay, now that we've covered that, back to the subject at hand, the CRIMINAL PEDOPHILE ROBERT FINN. Let's hear your defense of why my children were knowingly and repeatedly put in contact with two different accused pedophiles. And why the head of this criminal enterprise spent tens to hundreds of thousands of our dollars to defend himself from prison, while running the diocese into bankruptcy. Well? I'm waiting.
ReplyDeleteFalse equivalency here, a favorite talking point of the church.
ReplyDelete>>If David Clohessy failed to report a crime, he is a criminal.<<
What was the crime? Clohessey had no legal duty. In the case of Finn not reporting WAS a crime.
As to the rest, I'm waiting too.
My point was that SNAP isn't the issue, and accusing them is an intentional strategy to divert attention. And I did not agree with those accusations; I merely acknowledged my willingness to support justice wherever justice applies, based on where the facts lead. Hence the "if"s. Sooooo, back to the CRIMINAL PEDOPHILE ROBERT FINN...still waiting.
ReplyDeleteSaid it once and I say it again, Bobaloo Finn is the spawn of Satan!
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