Gun-toting priest’s behaviour ‘abhorrent’

ROME
9 News

AAP

A gun-toting Melbourne priest’s behaviour in making children kneel between his legs during confession is “abhorrent”, Cardinal George Pell says.

The church failed to remove Doveton parish priest Peter Searson, whom Cardinal Pell described as a disconcerting man and a difficult customer, despite years of complaints.

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