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A senior Catholic Church official who gave evidence at a NSW sex abuse inquiry is back in the witness stand at the royal commission in Canberra.
One of the Catholic Church’s most senior officials will give evidence on Tuesday at a national inquiry into child sex abuse in Canberra.
Father Brian Lucas, the general secretary of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference who also testified at a NSW commission into child abuse by Catholic clergy, will be in the witness box at the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.
The Canberra hearing is in its second week and is examining how the Marist Brothers Order handled allegations against two members subsequently jailed for multiple offences against children.
The commission has already heard that former brothers Gregory Sutton and John Chute were moved around multiple schools in NSW, Queensland and the ACT during their careers which spanned a period from 1950s to the 1990s.
Last week and on Monday it was revealed that suspicions about both men were raised with provincials of the order by people who worked with them in various schools.
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