Posted on 11/15/2014 10:24:24 AM PST by NKP_Vet
Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley of Boston has come out swinging on both the Catholic sex abuse scandals and a Vatican crackdown on American nuns, showing remarkable candor in an interview that will enhance his profile as a leading voice of the Pope Francis era in American Catholicism.
In provocative comments to air Sunday night on “60 Minutes,” O’Malley said that controversial Bishop Robert Finn of Kansas City, Mo., wouldn’t even be allowed to teach Sunday school in O’Malley’s archdiocese.
Two years ago, Finn became the lone US bishop to be criminally convicted for failing to report a suspected abuser to police, making him a symbol of what critics see as a lack of accountability in Catholicism in the leaders’ attempt to make their “zero tolerance” policy stick.
“It’s a question the Holy See needs to address urgently,” O’Malley said, according to excerpts released in advance by “60 Minutes,” adding “there’s a recognition of that from Pope Francis.”
Presumably, O’Malley’s reference was to the pontiff’s decision this year to dispatch a Vatican investigator to Kansas City, which is often a prelude to removing the bishop under review.
O’Malley is the president of Francis’s new Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors, designed to lead the recovery effort from the abuse scandals.
Although he has said before that holding bishops accountable is a key piece of unfinished business, this is the first time O’Malley has commented specifically on the Finn case.
Likewise on the investigation of American nuns, O’Malley bluntly called the Vatican-ordered review a “disaster.”
O’Malley has used such vocabulary before in describing the move against the nuns. In 2012, for instance, he called it a “debacle.”
(Excerpt) Read more at cruxnow.com ...
birds of a feather
Menino’s funeral too, if I’m not mistaken.
Yes His, too.
Remember these stories when they pass the collection basket...
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Francis really knows how to pick them.
Looks like Bishop Robert Finn is an Opus Dei conservative whose subordinates may have failed him but has become a target of Pope Francis.
As reported by a local, Finn ... “failed to report to civil authorities a priest who had child pornography on his computer. Given the rather fuzzy circumstances of Finn’s failure, I did not regard it as extremely significant”
http://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/otc.cfm?id=1237
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