Pope’s comment about bishop investigations raises questions in KC

KANSAS CITY (MO)
The Kansas City Star

May 27
BY JUDY L. THOMAS
The Kansas City Star

This much seems clear: The Vatican is investigating three bishops over issues relating to child sexual abuse.

Beyond that, however, comments made by Pope Francis to reporters during a Monday flight from the Holy Land to Rome have left the world wondering about who those bishops are and what they did.

Some, both in Kansas City and elsewhere are speculating that Bishop Robert Finn is one of them.

“If I were Bishop Robert Finn of Kansas City, I’d be nervous,” wrote Mark Silk, a professor of Religion in Public Life at Trinity College, on his Religion News Service blog on Tuesday.

Finn, after all is the highest-ranking U.S. Catholic Church official convicted of criminal charges related to child sexual abuse at the hands of a priest.

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