Three Opus Dei Bishops

By Frank Douglas
Voice from the Desert
May 17, 2013

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Archbishop Jose Gomez of Los Angeles, Archbishop John Myers of Newark, and Bishop Robert Finn of Kansas City-St. Joseph have made headlines recently.

Archbishop Gomez and his predecessor Cardinal Roger Mahony were in the news on May 9, 2013, when the LA Times revealed that Mahony was publicly performing confirmations in apparent violation of Gomez’s January letter to the region’s more than 4 million Catholics which seemed to rule out any conspicuous place for Mahony in the archdiocese. Noting that the cardinal had “expressed his sorrow for his failure to fully protect young people entrusted to his care, ” Gomez told the faithful, “Effective immediately, I have informed Cardinal Mahony that he will no longer have any administrative or public duties.”

There have been recent calls for Archbishop Myers to resign, including from members of the New Jersey legislature, because of his “outrageous” handling of an accused pedophile priest, the Rev. Michael Fugee. Archbishop Myers had reportedly allowed Fr. Fugee to minister to children despite a binding agreement entered into with the Prosecutor’s Office that he would never work with children. Click here.

Bishop Robert Finn of Kansas City-St. Joseph is the first and only U.S. bishop to be convicted of the misdemeanor crime of failure to report a priest suspected of child sex abuse to government authorities.

All three bishops are members of Opus Dei.