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Posted by Becky Ianni on November 12, 2012
Is there any crime a bishop can commit that would get him kicked out of America’s bishops group? Or even denounced by one of his fellow bishops? That’s what we can’t help but wonder.
At least three men will be at today’s bishops meeting who, we believe, shouldn’t be. We think they should have voluntarily stayed home. Or, even better, we think they should have been disinvited by their brother bishops. Why? Because when we ignore wrongdoing, we encourage wrongdoing.
Who are these three?
One (KC Bishop Robert Finn), just last month, was criminally convicted of keeping evidence of child sex crimes from police for months.
Another one (Archbishop Thomas Wenski), also just last month, finally suspended a priest from his parish after the fourth man filed the fourth civil lawsuit against the priest.
And the third (Bishop Daniel Conlon), back in September, abruptly and inexplicably announced that he was putting a credibly accused priest, back on the job even though the priest had been suspended for child sex abuse allegations. Ironically, and sadly, that bishop heads the USCCB child sex abuse committee.
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