Priest inmate moved from US prison Pope will visit

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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