KANSAS CITY (MO)
Pitch Weekly
Posted By Steve Vockrodt on Mon, Sep 29, 2014
The National Catholic Reporter says that a Canadian archbishop traveled to Kansas City to investigate Robert Finn, bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph.
The Kansas City-based news outlet covering Catholicism reports that Ottawa, Ontario, Archbishop Terrence Prendergast paid a visit to Kansas City last week to ask members close to the local diocese about Finn’s leadership.
The Pitch has no independent verification of these claims; calls to the local and Ottawa diocese were not immediately returned.
Jack Smith, a spokesman for the local diocese, told the NCR that no one among the Kansas City diocese leadership was aware Prendergast’s queries, although a spokeswoman for the Ottawa diocese seemed to confirm his travel to Kansas City by couching it as a “private visit.”
Finn is reportedly in Rome for the ordinations of seminarians there. Finn time away in Rome seems to make an investigator’s visit to Kansas City timely.
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