Msgr William Lynn - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Thu, 16 Jul 2015 00:25:35 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Msgr William Lynn - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Priest inmate moved from US prison Pope will visit https://cathnews.co.nz/2015/07/17/priest-inmate-moved-from-us-prison-pope-will-visit/ Thu, 16 Jul 2015 19:07:33 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=74120 A former Church official jailed for his handling of abuse complaints is no longer housed at a US prison Pope Francis will visit later this year. Msgr William Lynn is serving a minimum three year sentence for endangering children in Philadelphia archdiocese. He had been held at Curran-Fromhold Correctional Center, while he appealed his 2012 Read more

Priest inmate moved from US prison Pope will visit... Read more]]> A former Church official jailed for his handling of abuse complaints is no longer housed at a US prison Pope Francis will visit later this year.

Msgr William Lynn is serving a minimum three year sentence for endangering children in Philadelphia archdiocese.

He had been held at Curran-Fromhold Correctional Center, while he appealed his 2012 conviction.

Pope Francis is scheduled to visit inmates at this prison in September.

But now Msgr Lynn is back at a state prison near Scranton.

Appeals courts have been split on whether he should have been convicted under a child-endangerment law and he has been in and out of prison.

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