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St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Joe Holleman
The latest issue of “Catholic St. Louis” magazine carries a feature highlighting 12 local men who rose to powerful positions in the church.
One of the men is Bishop Robert Finn — the former bishop of Kansas City-St. Joseph who was convicted in 2012 of failing to report a priest suspected of sex abuse. The magazine feature makes no mention of his conviction.
A Vatican investigation showed that Finn waited six months before telling police about the Rev. Shawn Ratigan, whose computer held lewd photos of girls taken in and near churches where he worked.
Ratigan was eventually sentenced to 50 years in prison for child pornography. Finn later resigned from his position in Kansas City.
The magazine is published six times a year by the Archdiocese of St. Louis. It is included in deliveries of the St. Louis Review, the archdiocese’s newspaper.
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