AUSTRALIA
Sydney Morning Herald
June 27, 2014
Rachel Browne
Social Affairs Reporter
When a Catholic priest was formally dismissed by the Pope in the wake of sexual misconduct claims, he made a “veiled threat” to sue the Bishop who delivered the news.
Wollongong Bishop Peter Ingham told the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse that John Nestor refused to accept that he was to be dismissed by papal decree after a lengthy battle to oust him from the ministry which went all the way to the Vatican.
Bishop Ingham told Mr Nestor he was not going to make the Pope’s decision in 2008 widely known.
“I told him the situation and I said I’d be letting the clergy know but I wasn’t planning to make it public,” he told the commission.
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