AUSTRALIA
The Standard
By FIONA HENDERSON, MATTHEW DIXON and ALEX SINNOTT July 3, 2014
THE bishop who led the south-west’s Catholics for 25 years has been stripped of a major honour originally bestowed by his church.
Ballarat’s Australian Catholic University campus has renamed its theatre, replacing the honour formerly awarded to past diocese leader Ronald Mulkearns.
The university has renamed its lecture hall as the Sister of Mercy Theatre after Mulkearns was found to be grossly negligent in dealing with paedophile priests working in south west Victoria.
Mulkearns served as Catholic bishop of the Ballarat diocese- which covers the entire south west – from 1971 to 1997 and is recognised on a number of church plaques across the region.
Sexual abuse survivors spokesman Andrew Collins said the name change had been something the community had been requesting for quite some time.
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