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Child sexual abuse royal commission: Vatican declines request to provide all documents relating to Australian priests
Updated 5 July 2014
Lindy Kerin
The Vatican has declined a royal commission request to hand over documents about child sexual abuse committed by Catholic priests in Australia.
The head of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, Justice Peter McClellan, revealed last month that he had personally written to the Vatican, seeking copies of all documents relating to complaints about abuse involving priests in Australia.
The Vatican has provided documents to the royal commission relating to two cases, but Justice McClellan wanted more information to find out how church authorities in Australia, under the guidance or direction of the Vatican, responded to allegations of abuse.
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