AUSTRALIA
Daily Telegraph
PATRICK CARLYON
HERALD SUN MAY 20, 2013
FORMER Melbourne archbishop Frank Little died and was buried in 2008. Yesterday, at the parliamentary child abuse inquiry, he was buried again.
Little “covered up” the abuses of paedophile priests, incumbent Archbishop Denis Hart conceded under sustained questioning.
Little arranged confidential agreements. He kept no records of complaints. And, as in the case of paedophile priest Father Wilfred Baker, it appears that Little moved offending priests from one parish to the next.
“I’m not responsible for his actions but I certainly feel the pain as a result of those failed actions,” the Archbishop said.
For almost 3 1/2 hours, he fronted a tough crowd. When his inquisitors momentarily dropped their scepticism, which wasn’t often, those in the gallery – many of them victims or families of victims – scoffed at his answers.
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