MISSOURI
Berger’s Beat
. . .Kansas City Bishop (and St. Louis native) Robert Finn is apparently letting a priest who did 90 days in jail for theft work at a parish. Back in 2000, Fr. Glen Gardner, was convicted for stealing “thousands of dollars worth of antiques” from two Catholic churches, including “linen, candles, a pair of 3-foot-high altar candlesticks, and incense burner, two candelabra, a ciborium that holds communion wafers and a $9,000 monstrance that displays eucharistic bread.” Fr. Gardner is at St. Patrick’s Oratory and is part of the Institute of Christ the King – an ultra-conservative outfit with a church in our town. The institute was first welcomed to the U.S. by then-Bishop Raymond Burke of LaCrosse (who went on to head the St. Louis archdiocese and is now the highest-ranking U.S. prelate in the Vatican. . .
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