PHILADELPHIA (PA)
Philadelphia Inquirer

Joe Slobodzian
POSTED: FRIDAY, MAY 22, 2015

It’s been three weeks since Msgr. William J. Lynn was sent back to prison after the state Supreme Court reinstated his 2012 conviction and sentence for child endangerment in the Catholic Church priest sex abuse scandal.

For the 64-year-old Lynn, the first church official convicted for a supervisory role over deviant clergy, it’s become a question of waiting behind bars or returning to house arrest while his lawyers continue appealing.

Thomas A. Bergstrom, Lynn’s lawyer, said Friday he plans to visit Lynn on Wednesday to discuss whether he wants to petition the Superior Court to free him on bail pending his new appeals.

For many people, this wouldn’t even be a question. But Bergstrom said that after already serving 18 months of a 3- to 6-year prison term, Lynn “is not enamored of the thought of becoming…