Either Catholic Bishops are held to a lower legal and moral standard than are college football coaches, or Joe Paterno is just another (highly paid but expendable) peon in the 99% who live under one justice system, while Catholic Kansas City Bishop Finn is in the untouchables, the 1% who seem to get away with almost anything. While Penn State is the focus of national disgrace, unreported child abuse by Catholic Bishops is, for the media and the cops, just business as usual.

Bishop Finn was indicted for both not reporting a priest in his diocese who was taking photographs of little girls private parts and storing them on a church computer! Finn also failed to stop the criminal abuse well into 2011, after it was discovered.

It wasn't like Penn State - 'somebody says they saw something in the shower', there were photographs!  THE PICTURES WERE FOUND ON THE CHURCH COMPUTER!!

If Joe got Finn's deal, he would just have to report any new pedophiles in his showers, and his failure to report Sandusky would be swept under the legal carpet. What a deal! The Bishop, of course, is now free to continue pontificating on the evils of gay marriage, birth control, and choice.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — In a deal to avoid a second round of criminal charges, a Roman Catholic bishop in Kansas City has agreed to meet monthly with a county prosecutor to detail every suspicious episode involving abuse of a child in his diocese for the next five years. Bishop Robert W. Finn of the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph was indicted in October by a grand jury in neighboring Jackson County for failure to report suspected child abuse by a priest he supervised. He is the first American bishop to face indictment on charges of mishandling an abuse case...