Just The One?

There are 450 active and retired Catholic bishops in the United States. After what has seemed like an aeon of coverage, one of them has finally been convicted of something tangentially related to child abuse. Yes, one. And yes, now, for the first time ever.

Moreover, he has been convicted, not that anyone else would have been under the same circumstances, of failing to report a priest whose computer contained sexually explicit images of very young girls. That's right, everyone who engaged or colluded in the endemic sexual abuse of teenage boys has been let off. Funny, that.

But Bishop Robert Finn of Kansas City-Saint Joseph, for it is he, is the only American bishop to be a member of the Priestly Society of the Holy Cross, the diocesan priests' association "intrinsically united" to Opus Dei, of which Prelature itself no priest has ever been accused of anything in any way related to child abuse. 

Furthermore, he has welcomed into his diocese the rapidly growing Benedictines of Mary, Queen of the Apostles, with their charism as contemplative nuns praying for the spiritual formation of priests, and as well as having welcomed the traditionalist Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest to celebrate the Extraordinary Form in his diocese's oldest church, Saint Patrick's Oratory.

Yet all the liberals who engaged or colluded in the endemic sexual abuse of teenage boys have been let off.

Funny, that.