John Joseph Nevins

Bishop John Joseph Nevins (January 19, 1932 – August 26, 2014) was an American prelate of the Catholic Church.

[1] On July 17, 1984, Nevins was appointed by John Paul II as the first bishop of the Diocese of Venice in Florida.

Between 1979 and 1982, while in an improper relationship with their mother, Romero sexually abused the three siblings in Hobe Sound, Florida.

[3] In November 2005, a St. Petersburg, Florida man filed a lawsuit against Nevins and the diocese, claiming that he was sexually abused as a minor by George E. Brennan, a diocesan priest.

In a 1992 pastoral letter, "Reverence for God and the Human Person," Nevins condemned abortion rights for women Although Americans "live in a pluralistic society," he said, there are not two standards of morality -- there is only one.