AS IN THE 1950s, CONVICTED BISHOP REFUSED TO TURN IN PEDOPHILE PRIEST IN 2011
I have always said that the policies put in place by the American bishops in the last decade to report or prevent childhood sexual abuse by their priests were simply insincere media ploys designed to deceive the general public and parents of young children into believing that children were safe in that church.
The conviction Thursday of bishop Robert Finn in Kansas City proves my point. The details of his trial were reported today by Laurie Goodstein in The New York Times and you can read the facts here at –
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/08/us/in-pedophile-case-church-failed-to-stop-priest.html?_r=1&hp
You can compare the cover-up and refusal to report the actions of a very dangerous priest by this bishop with the conduct of bishops in the Diocese of Wilmington Delaware in the 1950s and the 1960s, more than 50 years ago, as I report from court records in my book When Priests Become Predators (2012). You will conclude that nothing has changed within the church in over 50 years. Its bishop here used the same old tactics of moving the dangerous priest around, trying to cover-up his actions with sanitized medical reports, ignoring the pleas of those trying to stop the priest, etc.
These actions in 2011 by a bishop required by the written rules of the Roman Catholic Church to turn in this priest prove that the promises of protection of children made by the American bishops as pie crust promises, easily made, easily broken, to quote Mary Poppins.
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