ishop James V. Johnston, the newly named bishop of Kansas City-St. Joseph, Mo.,
comes to the job familiar with the grim realities of the sex abuse
scandal, having served a bishop who resigned in 2002 after admitting
that he abused teen age boys.
Johnston hails from Knoxville, Tenn., a diocese erected in 1988. Its first bishop was Anthony O’Connell, who served there from 1988 until 1998 when he was transferred to Palm Beach, Fla. It was in Palm Beach in 2002 that O’Connell revealed that he had molested teen-aged seminarians decades before when he served as rector of Hannibal, Mo., high school seminary.
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Johnston hails from Knoxville, Tenn., a diocese erected in 1988. Its first bishop was Anthony O’Connell, who served there from 1988 until 1998 when he was transferred to Palm Beach, Fla. It was in Palm Beach in 2002 that O’Connell revealed that he had molested teen-aged seminarians decades before when he served as rector of Hannibal, Mo., high school seminary.
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