Showing posts with label Bishop Robert Finn. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bishop Robert Finn. Show all posts
Thursday, May 14, 2015

Survivor Groups to USCCB National Lay Review Board: Why in God's Name Is Resigned and Disgraced Bishop Robert Finn Slated to Ordain Priests in May?

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Several groups of abuse survivors and advocates for abuse survivors have written the National Lay Review Board a letter that, in my vi...
Wednesday, May 6, 2015

Tom Doyle on What Bishop Finn's Failed Pastoral Leadership Cost Kansas City Diocese, in Dollars and Cents

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Father Tom Doyle, OP, at National Catholic Reporter , on what Bishop Robert Finn's failed pastoral leadership cost the Kansas Cit...
Wednesday, April 29, 2015

Peter Isely on the Resignation of Bishop Finn, Abuse Survivors, and Persephone's Pomegranate Seed

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A valuable piece of commentary from Peter Isely of SNAP Wisconsin, in his Facebook feed recently , about the resignation of Bishop Ro...
Monday, April 27, 2015

The Finn Story and What Crystallizes Lay Catholic Anger About the Abuse Crisis: A Photo Essay

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And — it has to be said — (piggybacking on my first posting today ) photos like the following absolutely do not  help many of us lay Ca...

Bishop Robert's Finn's Criminal Conviction, and What Crystallizes the Anger of Lay Catholics About the Abuse Crisis (Hint: It's All About Clericalism)

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Here's a letter from the heart I have written (by email) this morning to an e-friend, a very good person, who had emailed me to a...
Friday, April 24, 2015

Three More Statements on "Resignation" of Bishop Robert Finn of Kansas City: Francis Must Prove He Is Different

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Three more statements about the "resignation" of convicted felon* Bishop Robert Finn of St. Joseph-Kansas City, from groups...
Wednesday, April 22, 2015

Droppings from the Catholic Birdcage: Jerry Slevin on How "Finn Sacking . . . Points to Serious Trouble after the Chile Revolt for the Pope’s Upcoming Visit to Philly"

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Jerry Slevin at Christian Catholicism on how the Finn sacking shows the tenacity of abuse survivor Marie Collins in holding the pope...

Droppings from the Catholic Birdcage: "This Is a Big Deal . . . . Until Finn, No American Bishop Had Ever Been Forced from Office" for Cover-Up of Clerical Sex Crimes

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David Gibson at Religion News Service on five lessons to be taken from the resignation of Bishop Robert Finn as bishop of St. Joseph...
Tuesday, April 21, 2015

Big U.S. Catholic News of Day: Bishop Robert Finn Resigns

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And, of course, the big news in the Catholic church in the U.S. today: the convicted felon who was bishop of Kansas City-St. Joseph, ...
Wednesday, July 16, 2014

Jerry Slevin on Jennifer Haselberger's Affidavit: "Underscores That Francis' Calculated and Ineffective Approach to Facing the Catholic Church's Greatest Challenge in Centuries Will Likely Be a Failure"

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In response to Brian Roewe's report today at National Catholic Reporter  about Jennifer Haselberger's affidavit in the sexua...
Monday, March 31, 2014

New York Times "Retro Report" on "The Shame of the Church"

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What did you think, those of you who watched the Al Jazeera America   "Holy Money" documentary last evening? And the video d...
Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Frank Cocozzelli on Continuing Spectacle of Convicted Criminal Bishop Robert Finn: "He Has Become the Symbol of Ongoing Institutional Intransigence"

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Frank Cocozzelli on the continuing spectacle of convicted criminal Bishop Robert Finn, who refuses to relinquish his bishop's ...
Wednesday, January 8, 2014

In the News: Little Sisters of Poor vs. Obama, Frank Cocozzelli's Coughie Award, Fred Clark's "Daily Blog of the Day," John Allen Leaving NCR

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The Daily Show Get More: Daily Show Full Episodes , The Daily Show on Facebook Now a grab-bag of news items and articles that hav...
Friday, December 6, 2013

Papal Commission on Sexual Abuse Crisis Announced; Survivors Respond

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The Vatican announced yesterday that Pope Francis has set up a papal commission to advise him about dealing with the sexual abuse cri...
Thursday, October 31, 2013

Bill Tammeus's Open Letter to Pope Francis about Bishop Finn, and More on St. Paul-Minneapolis and Archbishop Nienstedt

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Bill Tammeus's open letter to Pope Francis at National Catholic Reporter  this week is excellent: he writes to Francis as a brot...
Wednesday, October 23, 2013

Droppings from the Catholic Birdcage: "Compare and Contrast" (Tebartz van-Elst Punished, Nienstedt and Finn Continue with Impunity)

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In response to my posting yesterday about the mess that is the archdiocese of St. Paul-Minneapolis under the pastoral leadership of Arc...
Thursday, September 12, 2013

Father Shawn Ratigan Sentenced to 50 Years in Prison, But Robert Finn Continues to Sit His Episcopal Throne

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Father Shawn Ratigan of Kansas City was sentenced to 50 years in prison today for possession and production of child pornography.  ...
Saturday, March 9, 2013

As Papal Election Nears, AP Recycles Old News about Bishop Finn Attacking NCR's Catholicity

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Does anyone in the world but me find it, well, odd  that, on the eve of a papal election, the Associated Press is shopping around an ...
Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Abuse Survivors and Their Allies Remember Benedict's Legacy: "Failed to Achieve," "Words Rang Hollow," "Never Once Contacted, Spoke To, or Apologized," "Did Not Do Enough"

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And it's not merely LGBT Catholics and their allies (I'm referring to my previous posting ) who see Benedict's legacy in ...
Monday, February 4, 2013

A Petition Calling on Bishop Robert Finn to Resign

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As we celebrate last week's "victory" and "miracle" for the Catholic tribe, it may be important not to lose...