KANSAS CITY (MO)
St. Joe Channel
By: Lauren Rauth
Updated: November 9, 2012
(KANSAS CITY, Mo.) A support group for clergy sex abuse victims is urging the bishop of the Kansas City-St. Joseph Diocese to skip the annual meeting of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
Leaders from the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, or SNAP, wrote Bishop Robert Finn a letter, urging him to skip next week’s meeting.
The letter asks Finn to show contrition for acting “recklessly, callously and deceitfully” with his failure to report the crimes committed in the case involving former St. Joseph priest Rev. Shawn Ratigan.
Bishop Finn was convicted last month of child endangerment for the Ratigan case. He is the first American Bishop to be convicted of such a crime.
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