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February 6, 2019

Kansas archbishop urges U.S. senate to OK bill to protect babies who survive abortion

U.S. Vice President Mike Pence applauds and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., looks on as President Donald Trump delivers his second State of the Union address Feb. 5, 2019, at the Capitol in Washington. During his speech Trump urged Congress to pass legislation that bans late-term abortion.
WASHINGTON – It is "unconscionable" that the U.S. Senate failed to "unanimously declare to the nation that infanticide is objectively wrong," said the chairman of the U.S. bishops' Committee on Pro-Life Activities.
Published in International
May 8, 2017

Kansas family among first to aid fellow farmers affected by wildfires

Emma Joyce, a junior at Maur Hill-Mount Academy in Atchison, Kan., and a parishioner of St. Benedict Church in Bendena, Kan., helps repair a fence line March 22 at a ranch near Ashland, Kan., The ranch had sustained damage from a devastating wildfire that swept through that portion of the state in early March.

KANSAS CITY, Kan. – Father Prakash Rao Kola was in Coldwater, Kansas, 30 miles east of Ashland, the afternoon of March 6 when he began to get frantic calls from parishioners.

Published in International
April 30, 2015

Getting it right

Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Bishop Robert W. Finn of Kansas City-St. Joseph, Mo., who was convicted in 2012 on one misdemeanor count of failing to report suspected child abuse. Bishop Finn is pictured in a 2014 photo at the Vatican.

Early in his papacy Pope Francis committed to continuing the work of Pope Benedict XVI to impose a zero-tolerance policy for abuser priests and see-no-evil bishops. So it was more than symbolic in late April when a Kansas City bishop was forced into retirement following a criminal conviction of failing to report suspected child abuse.

Published in Editorial
April 21, 2015

Pope accepts resignation of Bishop Finn

Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Bishop Robert W. Finn of Kansas City-St. Joseph, Mo., who was convicted in 2012 on one misdemeanor count of failing to report suspected child abuse. Bishop Finn is pictured in a 2014 photo at the Vatican.

VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Bishop Robert W. Finn of Kansas City-St. Joseph, Missouri, who was convicted in 2012 on one misdemeanour count of failing to report suspected child abuse.

Published in Vatican
October 1, 2014

Ottawa archbishop investigates U.S. bishop

Archbishop Terrence Prendergast was sent by the Vatican to investigate a U.S. bishop.

OTTAWA - Ottawa Archbishop Terrence Prendergast was sent by the Vatican to investigate the bishop of Kansas City-St. Joseph, according to published reports. 

Published in Canada