He faces a potential maximum 50-year prison term after a sentencing hearing that begins on Wednesday.
Rod McGuirk - Associated Press
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Australian Anglican set to be laicized over abuse inaction
An assistant bishop is set to become the most senior Anglican in Australia to be laicized.
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Australian prime minister calls on pope to fire archbishop
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said two weeks ago that Adelaide Archbishop Philip Wilson should have resigned when he was convicted in May of failing to report to police the repeated abuse of two altar boys by a pedophile priest in the Hunter Valley region north of Sydney during the 1970s.
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Australia bishop appeals conviction for protecting pedophile
The most senior Roman Catholic cleric to be convicted of covering up child sex abuse said Wednesday that he would appeal the verdict and resist public pressure to resign as archbishop of an Australian city.
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Australian bishop sentenced to one year’s detention for cover-up
The most senior Roman Catholic cleric to be convicted of covering up child sex abuse was sentenced to 12 months in detention by an Australian court Tuesday.
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Churches, Scouts and YMCA join Australian abuse redress plan
The Catholic Church estimates it alone will be liable for about AU$1 billion ($757 million) in compensation.
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Cardinal Pell hearing on sex abuse charges begins in Australian court
Pell’s lawyers told the court that the cardinal plans to formally plead not guilty.
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Australia’s child sex abuse commission attacks Catholic celibacy, seal of confession
“We have concluded that there were catastrophic failures of leadership of Catholic Church authorities over many decades,” the report said.