Year of Mercy Update: Bishop Finn Purged

I awoke today to see a text from my friend--fittingly, the former Kansas City Catholic-- informing me that His Excellency Robert Finn, Bishop of Kansas City-St. Joseph, had resigned.This sad story comes from the Kansas City Star, as does the above photo. I include only the first three paragraphs, because this will be the official template for every story you see about it today:VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis on Tuesday accepted the resignation of Bishop Robert Finn, who led the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph. Finn pleaded guilty in 2013 to failing to report a suspected priestly child abuser in the first known case of a pope sanctioning bishops for covering up for pedophiles. The Vatican said Tuesday that Bishop Robert Finn had offered his resignation under the code of canon law that allows bishops to resign early for illness or some “grave” reason that makes them unfit for office. It didn’t provide a reason.1. Pope Francis accepted the resignation. 2. Finn pled guilty to failing to report.3. Unfit for office.That's all the press thinks of this, or at least it is all it wants you to know. Make no mistake, Bishop Finn, like so many others in this regime of "humility", in this year of "mercy", is a victim of Catholic orthodoxy.The list of victims reads like a roll call of the top prelates on Mark Shea's (to-be-dropped-down-the-memory-hole-by-2013) Best Bishops in the World post:Burke. Canizares. Pell (in progress). Oliveri. And don't forget Cordileone (also in progress).While we are waiting for the Holy Father to issue a strong statement of support in favor of Archbishop Cordileone in San Francisco, under vicious attack by the wealthy and influential sodomites and adulterers publicly calling for his head (just like Bishop Finn, here in the heartland), note the very liberal Bishop Juan Barros (only recently appointed by His Holiness over strong objections to allegations of his personal connection to an actual clerical child abuser), doesn't appear to be going anywhere.  That appointment was made in March 2015, long after Pope Francis sent a bishop to investigate the Kansas City/St. Joseph Diocese.  And, more to the point, the prosecution against Bishop Finn in the Ratigan failure-to-report case was a persecution-dressed-as-prosecution if there ever was one.  Bishop Finn had his own lawyers, of course, but I have always thought it a mistake to plead guilty.  If the world wants to persecute us, let them do their own dirty work.But that is water under the bridge.  Friends, people talk about a coming persecution.  Wake up.  It is here.  It comes for you and me.  No servant is greater than his Master.  If the world hates you, know that it hated Christ first.  All who live godly will suffer persecution.Man up.  In our sinfulness, the Lord has made the effeminate to rule over us.May Bishop Finn find peace, and strength, and I pray that for us all.