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For many years, the SSPX St. Mary's Rectory in Kansas faced numerous sex abuse allegations. [52] In January 2023, The KBI’s four-year inquiry into alleged child sexual abuse in four Catholic dioceses and the SSPX therein in the US state of Kansas resulted in referral of 30 cases to county prosecutors targeting 14 members of the clergy.
Lawmakers will try again to lift Kansas’ statute of limitations on lawsuits over child sex abuse after a KBI report said the agency investigated 188 priests.
The Diocese of Concordia in America (Latin: Dioecesis Concordiensis in America) was founded on August 2, 1887, by Pope Leo XIII and based in Concordia, Kansas. [1] On December 23, 1947, the Diocese was renamed the Roman Catholic Diocese of Salina. [2] In 1995, the Diocese of Concordia was restored as a titular see. [3]
Sep. 17—Boys from Joplin and Carthage and a boy and a girl from Neosho are among 11 alleged victims of past sexual abuse by Catholic Church officials cited in a lawsuit filed last week against ...
The clergy–penitent privilege, clergy privilege, confessional privilege, priest–penitent privilege, pastor–penitent privilege, clergyman–communicant privilege, or ecclesiastical privilege, is a rule of evidence that forbids judicial inquiry into certain communications (spoken or otherwise) between clergy and members of their congregation. [1]
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Robert William Finn (born April 2, 1953) is an American bishop of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as bishop of the Diocese of Kansas City-Saint Joseph from 2005 until his forced resignation in 2015. Finn is the only American bishop to be convicted of failure to report a priest suspected of child sex abuse to government authorities. [2]
Patrick R. Miller, in-house counsel for the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph, said in a Friday interview that he couldn’t say much more than the letter from McCaffery said, other than to ...