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Thursday, March 29, 2012

Bishop Finn case: going forward or no?

Tuesday, The Star reported that the judge in the case on Bishop Finn announced that he'd reveal in the next few days whether the prosecution against the Bishop will go forward or not. Three things on it: One, I hope it does (as it should). Two, I'm hopeful it will but third and finally, if the past gives any insight to the future, the judge will buckle and back down from the institution that the Catholic Church is, however ugly, self-serving and abusive. Here's hoping. Link: http://www.kansascity.com/2012/03/27/3517642/ruling-expected-next-week-in-criminal.html
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JudyJones said...

Isn't it interesting that in KC-St Joe diocese the bishop is blaming the vicar general, yet in Philly Archdiocese the vicar general is blaming the bishop?

ALL who enable and empower child predators to abuse more kids, by covering up their sex crimes, need to be held accountable by the law of the land. This is the only way to get this horrific abuse stopped and to protect our kids today.

Judy Jones, SNAP Midwest Associate Director, USA, 636-433-2511
"Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests" and all clergy.

(SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, is the world's oldest and largest support group for clergy abuse victims.
SNAP was founded in 1988 and has more than 12,000 members. Despite the word "priest" in our title, we have members who were molested by religious figures of all denominations, including nuns, rabbis, bishops, and Protestant ministers and increasingly, victims who were assaulted in a wide range of institutional settings like summer camps, athletic programs, Boy Scouts, etc. Our website is SNAPnetwork.org)

March 30, 2012 at 10:55 AM
Mo Rage said...

I couldn't agree more.

I've written a few times, at least, that what is stunning most of all about this charge against Bishop Finn is that this law was put in place the last time the Catholic Church was caught abusing some of its own students--their own children. The assumption was, of course, that no priest and no one in the Catholic Church would either do this again or that, if it did happen, the hierarchy really would, for once, turn it in to the police which they patently and obviously did not do, after all. Yet the church is fighting this claim--that they didn't dodge this law. Shameful.

March 30, 2012 at 2:04 PM
Bernard Long said...

Catholics are such cowards, and don't understand anything about Jesus. Jesus would not have spent $1 million to defend himself for letting a known pedophile roam around children for a year in a church that produced more pedophiles than any institution in history, but Catholics allow it.

March 30, 2012 at 8:31 PM
Mo Rage said...

And time and again, too. So sad. So sad. So stupid. So irresponsible.

March 31, 2012 at 9:48 AM

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