Archbishop Answers Questions on Bishop Finn, Who Reisnged after Priest's Child Abuse Controversy

By Amy Hawley
KSHB
April 27, 2015

http://www.kshb.com/news/local-news/archbishop-answers-questions-about-bishop-finn

[with video]

Pope Francis asked Archbishop Joseph Naumann to be in charge of the Kansas City-St. Joseph diocese until a new bishop is named.

FULL INTERVIEW | Watch the entire 18-minute, sit-down interview with Archbishop Naumann here

Many called last week's move by the Vatican a historic moment. For the first time, the Vatican held a bishop accountable for poorly handling a case of a priest's child abuse.

In 2012, a judge convicted Bishop Robert Finn of failing to report suspected child abuse .



The public pressured the church for Finn's resignation and last Tuesday, Pope Francis accepted it .



But many wonder why it took so long.

Archbishop Naumann said, "I would say that it wasn't that things were standing still during that time... I think he admitted he had made some mistakes, and I think he wanted to do everything he could to correct it and to do things to make sure those things wouldn't happen again."

Finn is the first U.S Bishop to be punished and held accountable in a priest's sex crimes case.