Bishop Robert Finn entering the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Kansas City, Mo., on Sunday. He did not directly mention the charges against him, but he urged worshipers to keep the diocese together.
Days before, news had broken that Bishop Robert Finn and the diocese had been indicted on criminal charges for failing to report a priest found to have pornographic photos of children, including children of his congregants. The priest is accused of having taken more such photographs in the months before church leaders turned them over to law enforcement.
Not everyone made the trip to St. Patrick’s on Sunday. At breakfast, Liz Miquelon and her husband, Brad, asked each other the same question they’ve asked since the scandal broke months ago: would today be the day they returned to church? They had not attended since they pulled their daughter from St. Patrick’s School, terrified that she might be among the unidentified children in the photos.
And this is the whole problem with religion. When our minds are infected at an early age, even when something as obscene, something as atrocious as sexual abuse of our own children within our own church, we are unable to let go. The abuse started long before this. It started when all that religious garbage was being stuffed into the heads of the parents when they were the age of their daughter.
Not one religion has the courage to forego teaching religion until their offspring reach the age of 25. They know if they did, by that time the kids could think on their own and would reject the fairy tales for just what they are. Fairy tales.
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