KANSAS CITY (MO)
KCUR
By Stephen Steigman and Steve Kraske
The Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph is still reeling from Bishop Robert Finn’s conviction this month for failing to report child sexual abuse.
Members of a national Catholic organization — the National Survivor Advocates Coalition — on Sunday demanded that Finn resign. A spokeswoman for that group said simply, “A criminally convicted bishop cannot lead.”
The bishop is the highest-ranking U.S. Catholic cleric to be convicted in the church’s decades-long child sexual abuse scandal.
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