Posted on 09/29/2014 4:39:01 PM PDT by marshmallow
A Canadian archbishop visited the Kansas City-St. Joseph, Mo., diocese last week on behalf of the Vatican to investigate the leadership of Bishop Robert Finn, the first Catholic prelate to be found criminally guilty of shielding a priest in the ongoing clergy sexual abuse crisis.
Ottawa, Ontario, Archbishop Terrence Prendergast visited the Midwestern diocese for several days last week, interviewing more than a dozen people about Finn's leadership, several of those interviewed told NCR.
According to those who spoke with Prendergast, the main question he asked was: "Do you think [Finn] is fit to be a leader?"
The communications officer for the Ottawa archdiocese, Sarah Du Broy, said the archdiocese did not a have comment as "the Archbishop considers it a private visit."
The director of the Kansas City diocese's communications office, Jack Smith, originally told NCR that no one in the diocese had heard of Prendergast's visit. Smith then wrote in an email to NCR later Monday that Finn had been aware that Prendergast was in Kansas City.
"He cooperated with the process and was obligated by the terms of the visitation not to speak of it to anyone, including his senior staff and communications director," Smith wrote.
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And the National Schismatic Reporter can scarce contain its glee.
Some background. The charges against Bishop Finn were bogus to begin with.
http://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/otn.cfm?id=857
In other news: Pope shows no sign of concern that Cardinal Archbishop of New York plans to serve as Grand Marshal of a Gay Pride Parade.
Bishop Finn is a holy man. He is also a poor administrator for his diocese. The diocese probably will be bankrupt within a year. The diocese’s cash reserves are said to be at zero or darn close because of the multiple lawsuits which Finn poor handling of things brought about.
If I remember correctly, a lawsuit trial opened just today (or will very soon). The problem for the diocese of Kansas City, Missouri is that if they lose that case, they won’t have the cash reserves to file an appeal as is apparently required by Missouri law. I say apparently, because I am not a lawyer, but that’s what they’re saying there.
Nor concern that Cardinal O'Malley collaborates with the pro-abortion, pro-gay-marriage Boston Globe in a cynical, symbiotic, coffer-enhancing scheme.
We knew Bishop Finn when he was a seminarian at the North American College in Rome. The boy’s come a long way in 35 years.
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