UNITED STATES
RTE News
Boston’s Cardinal Sean O’Malley has said it is high time for the Vatican to tackle the case of an American bishop convicted of shielding an abusive priest.
In an interview to air tomorrow on CBS television’s “60 Minutes” current affairs programme, O’Malley said “the Holy See needs to urgently address” the question of Bishop Robert Finn.
“There is a recognition of that from Pope Francis,” added O’Malley.
Cardinal O’Malley is the president of the Pope’s new Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors, which is leading the church’s efforts to recover from the clerical child sexual abuse scandals.
He is also the only American appointed by Francis to his council of nine cardinal advisers from around the world.
Finn is still head of the Catholic diocese in Kansas City, Missouri two years after he pleaded guilty to failing to tell police that one of his priests was sexually abusing a minor.
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