KANSAS CITY (MO)
Kansas City Star
An employee of Kansas City’s Roman Catholic diocese wants to take back something she said in deposition testimony that reflects harshly on Bishop Robert Finn.
The about-face by staffer Julie Creech leaves the public with no way to know whether Finn, in a conversation with Creech about pornographic images found on a priest’s computer, said something to the effect of, “Sometimes boys will be boys.”
We do know, however, that Finn failed to protect children of the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph after he learned that lewd images of children had been found on a computer used by the Rev. Shawn Ratigan.
Although one hopes Finn did not speak such unfeeling words, his actions over the years have revealed too much willingness to disregard serious allegations of priests abusing children.
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