Former Rapid City cleric defends posting bail for predator priest

Philadelphia Archbishop Charles J. Chaput on Friday defended his decision to post bail for Msgr. William J. Lynn, saying it was reasonable and just for the archdiocese to help him. Lynn is scheduled to appear Monday before Common Pleas Court Judge M. Teresa Sarmina, who in 2012 oversaw the case against him and sentenced him to prison. After setting his bail at $250,000 on Monday, the judge ordered Lynn to come to court so she could outline his bail conditions face-to-face. [Allison Steele, Philadelphia Inquirer Staff Writer]

The Archbishop leading the assault on the White House is a short guy (not to mention a Two-Spirit of the first order). He entered seminary to dodge the draft, avoided service in Vietnam, and served as bishop of Rapid City from 1988 to 1997:

Chaput is a professed Capuchin and has a reputation as an outspoken conservative. A member of the Prairie Band Potawatomi tribe, he is the second Native American to be ordained a bishop in the United States, and the first Native American archbishop.

Bill Blankenship of The Topeka (Kansas) Capital-Journal:

Chaput didn’t grow up in the Potawatomi culture, but he told The Topeka Capital-Journal in 1998 when it named him a Kansan of Distinction that in the Diocese of Rapid City where more than 40 percent of Catholics are American Indians, he discovered his own native roots.

The Church of the Holy Roman Kiddie Diddlers is being brought to justice before the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) in Geneva:

The Vatican ratified the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child in 1990, but as the BBC reports, it failed to submit any progress reports until 2012, well after revelations of child sex abuse in the U.S., Europe and elsewhere. NPR's Sylvia Poggioli reports from Rome that Scicluna was the Holy See's chief sex crimes prosecutor for the past decade. The questioning in Geneva comes a day after thousands of pages of documents were turned over pertaining to sexual abuse by priests in the Chicago Archdiocese. [Scott Neuman, NPR]