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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Archbishop Coleridge: The church is now facing its own #MeToo moment
“There’s something going on in the culture. And one of the elements of that cultural shift is that people are prepared to speak up in a way that they would never have done before.”
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Duterte spokesman says Australian nun still in danger of deportation
An Australian missionary nun ordered by Philippine authorities to leave the country is still in danger of being deported, despite winning a reprieve from the Justice Department, said a top government official.
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New Australian law requires priests to report abuse admissions made in confessional
Such legislation would threaten Catholics’ religious freedom.
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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.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Vatican Dispatch
Australian archbishop faces prison time for failure to report child sex abuse
Philip Wilson was found guilty of failing to inform police about allegations of the sexual abuse of minors by a priest in the 1970s.
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Vatican leave of absence for Cardinal Pell remains as sex abuse trial is ordered
Cardinal George Pell is set to stand trial on charges of sexual abuse that go back decades.
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Lawyers make final remarks in Australian cardinal’s sex case
Magistrate Belinda Wallington will make her ruling on May 1 on whether Pell will stand trial.
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Australia’s Cardinal Pell blames inquiry for sex allegations
Pope Francis’ former finance minister was charged last year with offenses involving multiple complainants in his native Australia.
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Indigenous communities in Australia press for a national voice despite setbacks
The Uluru Statement proposed a constitutionally embedded, national Indigenous body (“the voice”) that would advise parliament on matters relating to Indigenous peoples.