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Judge refuses to drop charges against U.S. Catholic bishop
(Reuters) - A Catholic bishop in Kansas City must stand trial on charges that he failed to report a priest found with pornographic pictures of young girls on his Church computer to police, a judge said on Thursday.
Bishop Robert Finn, head of the Catholic Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph, faces one misdemeanor charge that he failed to tell authorities that Church officials had found disturbing pictures of unclothed little girls that appeared to have been taken by a popular local priest, Father Patrick Ratigan.
Missouri statutes requiring clergy, school teachers and others to report suspected child sexual abuse were "vague."also, Bishop Finn
had no duty to report the situation to authorities, because he was not the "designated reporter" within the diocese and could rely on someone else within the diocese to notify authorities.The judge tossed out those grounds for dismissal. Finn was trying to claim that weak civil law took precedence over his Christian moral obligations. I suppose only God & The Pope have the power to punish him.
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