AUSTRALIA
Courier Mail
Alicia Wood
The Daily Telegraph
February 13, 2013
TOP Catholic church leaders have been called to appear at a state inquiry into child sex abuse.
The NSW special commission of inquiry was formally opened yesterday to investigate allegations of a police cover-up of child sex abuse cases in the Maitland-Newcastle diocese.
Father Brian Lucas, the general secretary of the Australian Bishops Conference, Archbishop of Adelaide Phillip Wilson and retired bishop Michael Malone will all give evidence.
All three previously worked in the Maitland-Newcastle diocese and investigated allegations against paedophile priest Father Denis McAlinden.
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