AUSTRALIA
Sky News
A Melbourne priest who married a pregnant woman also fathered a second child after being moved to another state, an inquiry has heard.
Former Melbourne archbishop Frank Little tried to convince the married woman to give the baby up for adoption, the child abuse royal commission has heard.
His former second-in-charge Bishop Peter Connors said he was angry with the way the archbishop handled the case and organised for financial assistance for the woman over many years.
The unnamed priest was moved from one side of the Melbourne archdiocese to the other after telling Archbishop Little he got the woman pregnant.
When it came close to the woman’s due date, the priest told the archbishop ‘my position’s becoming intolerable’, because of the pressure put on him by the woman, the inquiry heard.
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