AUSTRALIA
The Australian
By Annette Blackwell
From: AAP
February 13, 2013
THREE senior Catholic Church officials – including the Archbishop of Adelaide, Philip Wilson – will testify at an inquiry into the alleged cover-up of child sex abuse in a NSW diocese.
The inquiry, headed by Commissioner Margaret Cunneen, SC, will look at whether the church protected predatory priests in the Diocese of Maitland-Newcastle, and in what circumstances Detective Chief Inspector Peter Fox was ordered to stop investigating abuse allegations.
Separate public hearings will be held on both issues, starting in Newcastle in May.
On the formal opening of the inquiry in Sydney on Wednesday, an application was heard for leave to appear from Archbishop Wilson’s legal counsel.
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