AUSTRALIA
7 News
BY ANNETTE BLACKWELL
July 5, 2014
The Vatican has told the child sex abuse royal commission that it will not hand over all information about members of its clergy who abused children in Australia.
Commission chairman Justice Peter McClellan on Saturday will address a 14th anniversary gathering of one of the main victims’ support groups.
Justice McClellan will tell Care Leavers Australia Network (CLAN) the Holy See has provided two sets of documents and says it may provide others where copies are not available in Australia.
But it has told the commission “that requests for all information regarding every case – which include requests for documents reflecting internal `deliberations’ – are not appropriate.”
It said the Holy See maintained the confidentiality of internal deliberations related to its judicial and administrative proceedings.
The reason was it “depends upon deliberative confidentiality to ensure the integrity and efficacy of its judicial and administrative processes.”
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