Vatican quiet on the indictment of Bishop Robert Finn, Time reports

• The Vatican doesn’t want to talk about Bishop Finn’s indictment.

We’re now seeing the fallout from the indictment of Bishop Robert Finn, who’s accused of failing to report suspected child sexual abuse in the Rev. Shawn Ratigan child-pornography case.

Time magazine has a fascinating look at the Vatican’s reaction — or lack of reaction — to the indictment of Finn, the first bishop in the United States to be indicted for failing to report suspected abuse by a priest under his watch.

From the Time story: “The news that an American bishop had been charged with failing to report child abuse should have been colossal news in the Vatican. But the response has been as if the case is far away and far removed from the Holy See — and the papacy that is so quick to come down on questions of celibacy, women priests and the rights of gay Catholics appears to regard the American scandal, involving a priest and what seems to be child pornography, as a matter for local jurisprudence.”