Vatican accepts resignation of U.S. bishop convicted of sex abuse coverup
Source: Washington Post
By Michelle Boorstein and Abby Ohlheiser April 21 at 2:09 PM
The Vatican on Tuesday announced the resignation of a Kansas City, Mo., bishop who was convicted of a sex abuse cover-up but remained in office a fact that particularly horrified abuse survivors and their advocates. Bishop Robert Finns resignation will be seen as a key achievement for Pope Francis, who has said his papacy would show more accountability for abuse within the church.
The Vatican announced the resignation of Finn, 62, in an unspecific, brief note in its daily bulletin:
The Holy Father has accepted the resignation from the pastoral government of the diocese of St. Joseph-Kansas City, Mo. (United States) presented His Excellency Bishop Robert Finn, it read.
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Weitensteiner, founder of Morning Star Boys Ranch, reinstated as priest
The Rev. Joseph Weitensteiner, the former director of the Morning Star Boys Ranch, has been reinstated as an active priest after the last sex abuse claims against him were rejected by a retired federal judge hired to rule on the credibility of the cases.
Referred to as Father Joe by a Catholic community that admired his decades of work with troubled boys, Weitensteiner, now 82, has never wavered in his insistence that he didnt molest boys entrusted to his care at the ranch southeast of Spokane.
But faced with a growing number of people who said they were sexually or physically abused by Weitensteiner or his staff at the boys ranch, former Spokane Bishop William Skylstad removed him from ministry in 2006.
The Morning Star allegations were made in 19 lawsuits that paralleled the bankruptcy of the Spokane Catholic Diocese. The Diocese case included more than two dozen clergy, 180 potential victims and ultimately cost more than $50 million to resolve.
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