AUSTRALIA
The Courier
By FIONA HENDERSON AND MATTHEW DIXON July 2, 2014
THE Australian Catholic University’s Aquinas campus has dumped the Mulkearns name from its lecture theatre.
The university has renamed it the Sisters of Mercy Theatre.
The move to remove the Mulkearns name comes after clergy sexual abuse survivors said last year’s state government inquiry into institutionalised child abuse clearly showed former Ballarat bishop Ronald Mulkearns, after whom the theatre is named, had failed to act on paedophile priests.
“The education wing of ACU’s Ballarat Campus recently underwent a major refurbishment,” ACU’s acting director of marking and external relations Chrissa Favaloro said..
“As part of that process, the university wished to acknowledge the 104 years of education work the Sisters of Mercy had undertaken on the site.”
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