AUSTRALIA
9 News
Megan Neil
November 22, 2015
Melbourne’s Doveton parish appears to have been a “dumping ground” for problem priests, four of them pedophiles.
A string of abusers operated in the Holy Family Parish and elsewhere in the Archdiocese of Melbourne for decades.
“It appears to have been a parish that might have been a dumping ground,” Broken Rites spokesman Dr Wayne Chamley said of Doveton.
“There was a series of problem priests and they all seemed to end up down there. These priests were dropped in there and it was hoped that the problem was going to go away and unfortunately it didn’t.”
The Catholic Church must fully explain itself, the church’s own Truth Justice and Healing Council says.
“Regardless of whether we’re talking about Doveton or any of the other parishes, where Catholic communities have been scandalised by the handling of the abuse crisis, it needs to be made plain by the church what it did, how it did it and why,” TJHC chief executive Francis Sullivan said.
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