Vatican ‘needs urgently to address Bishop Finn case’

Boston’s Cardinal Seán O’Malley told the CBS news programme 60 Minutes that the Vatican must “urgently address” the case of Bishop Robert Finn of Kansas City-St Joseph, the only US bishop convicted of failing to report clergy sex abuse to the authorities. The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) investigation of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR) Cardinal O’Malley said was “a disaster”.

The CDF asked whether LCWR nuns were too narrowly focused on social justice issues. On priesthood, he said: “If I were founding a Church, I’d love to have women priests. But Christ founded it, and has given us is something different.”