Kansas City diocese donations low

KANSAS CITY (MO)
KMBZ

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The Kansas City- St Joseph Diocese is still feeling aftershocks from the resignation of Bishop Robert Finn and the scandal involving Father Shawn Ratigan.

Archbishop Joseph Naumann says that, for now, he is focusing on the big picture. A new high school in Lee’s Summit was scheduled to open next fall, but donations fell short. The opening is now set for 2016.

Many parishioners withheld contributions to the bishop’s discretionary fund when the child sex abuse scandal broke.

Finn is still a bishop and is being paid by the church.

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