UNITED STATES
The Savannah Reporter

By Guy Speckman

Published: Thursday, September 13, 2012

A Ponder The Thought favorite topic was forefront in national news of late with the trial of Bishop Finn in Kansas City. Finn was the first American bishop criminally charged and convicted in a clergy sex abuse scandal for failing to report suspected child abuse. He was found guilty in a non-jury trial and given two years of probation that was suspended and will be wiped from his record if he adheres to a set of conditions that include abuse reporting training and other miniscule tasks.

That last paragraph makes me laugh a little. Can you believe that he is the first ever to be charged? Seems almost incredulous to me.

The important part of this story is that the Catholic Diocese of Kansas City – St. Joseph was also originally charged but those charges were…