From Hugh Kramer:

Bishop Robert W. Finn, head of the diocese of Kansas City, was indicted by a grand jury yesterday on charges that he failed to reporting child pornography on a priest’s computer. He is the highest ranking American clergyman to be charged so far in the Catholic Church’s long-running series of sex scandals. The archdiocese was also named in the indictment.

The charges stem from the case of Father Shawn Ratigan who was arrested in June on 3 counts of possessing child pornography in the form of hundreds of pictures on the priest’s computer. According to his own testimony, Bishop Finn knew of the existence of the photographs as early as December of 2010, but failed to notify police or state child abuse authorities until June, 2011. Both the bishop and the archdiocese have issued statements denying any wrong.

Seriously?!? I can’t believe that this is the the highest ranking clergyman charged considering how many bishops, archbishops, cardinals, and even the pope have been involved in hiding knowledge of illegal activities and intentionally obstructing justice. What’s even more mind boggling is that these charges are over child porn and administrators who failed to report sexual abuse, with physical contact with victims, have not been charged. I’m not trying to excuse child porn, but raping a child is a far worse crime than looking at a picture.

Every priest who has ever piddled a child needs to go to jail and every administrator or colleague who was involved with or complicit in the cover up also needs to join them.