KANSAS CITY (MO)
National Catholic Reporter
Brian Roewe | May. 15, 2015
KANSAS CITY, MO. Reversing course on an earlier decision to uphold 23 pastoral assignments made by Bishop Robert Finn days before his resignation, Kansas City, Kan., Archbishop Joseph Naumann has revised 14 of those assignments for the Kansas City-St. Joseph, Mo., diocese.
News of his decision came Friday morning in an email from Kansas City-St. Joseph spokesman Jack Smith to the diocese’s priests.
“After prayerful deliberation and consultation with his advisors, Archbishop Naumann has decided to modify some of the assignments previously made,” he wrote.
During an April 23 meeting with Naumann, current administrator of the diocese, two days after Finn resigned as head of the Kansas City-St. Joseph diocese, priests asked the archbishop to reconsider the appointments. Naumann replied that he had prayed over the decisions and chose to let them stand.
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