KANSAS CITY (MO)
KSHB
[with video]
Garrett Haake
Sep 29, 2014
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The Vatican is now investigating Bishop Robert Finn, two years after his conviction for failure to report possible sexual abuse conducted by a priest in his diocese.
Finn, the highest ranking American Catholic church official to be convicted of failing to support suspected crimes against children, has been the leader of 133,000 Catholics of the Diocese of Kansas City and St. Joseph since 2005.
The National Catholic Reporter first reported the investigation Monday afternoon.
NCR reported that Canadian Archbishop Terrence Prendergast spent three days working out of a private home in Overland Park, Kan., interviewing colleagues and associates of Finn and asking them about Finn’s fitness to remain as leader of the church here.
“By accounts he listened well and listened hard and listened to both sides, and he will issue a report that will be filed with the Congregation of Bishops,” NCR editor Dennis Coday told 41 Action News.
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