HUDSON,
Wis. -- A funeral home owner has requested a meeting with Pope Francis
during the pontiff’s visit to the United States later this month. The Hudson funeral home owner wants to talk to the pope
about his son Daniel, who was murdered in 2002 by a parish priest
thought to be trying to conceal his sexual abuse of young boys.
It
is widely believed that Daniel O’Connell was preparing to confront
Father Ryan Erickson about the abuse when the priest came to O’Connell
Family Funeral Home and gunned down the 39-year-old funeral director and
22-year-old student intern James Ellison.