AUSTRALIA
Newcastle Herald
By JASON GORDON July 1, 2014
THE Maitland-Newcastle Catholic Diocese will establish an independent review panel to determine the future of priests criticised in findings of the child sex abuse special commission of inquiry.
But abuse victims have called the move ‘‘ridiculous’’ and ‘‘yet more evidence that the Church has learned nothing’’.
Bishop Bill Wright published a lengthy statement in the diocesan magazine Aurora yesterday, defending the Church’s response to the inquiry’s findings against six senior clergy.
Commissioner Margaret Cunneen made adverse findings against Father William Burston and Monsignor Allan Hart. The diocese has allowed them to retain their positions in their parishes, but withdrawn them from any committees which report to the bishop.
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