AUSTRALIA
Daily Telegraph
AAP
THE Catholic Church knew pedophile priests were ticking time bombs but covered up their evil deeds to protect its reputation, former church leaders admit.
MINUTES of a special issues committee meeting at a 1992 Australian Catholic Bishops Conference reveal: “It was agreed that there are serious time bombs ticking away in a number of diocese at the present time.”
Former Melbourne archdiocese vicar-general Bishop Peter Connors said there were time bombs ticking away in a number of dioceses including Melbourne’s Doveton parish, where a succession of pedophile priests were sent from the 1970s to the 1990s.
“That would certainly be the case I think particularly in the Diocese of Ballarat, the big time bomb was ticking away there,” Bishop Connors told the child abuse royal commission.
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