AUSTRALIA
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AAP
Ronald Mulkearns did not have a funeral befitting a retired Catholic bishop; nor will he even get the public prayers said for dead sinners.
The pain caused by pedophile priests under the 1971-1997 Ballarat bishop’s watch is still so raw that the Catholic Church has cancelled a memorial mass planned for Monday.
Bishop Mulkearns covered up abuse by pedophiles he moved between parishes, Ballarat clergy abuse victim Andrew Collins said.
“While he didn’t abuse children directly, he essentially facilitated the rape and abuse of children all throughout western Victoria,” Mr Collins told AAP.
“And we’re not talking about one or two, we’re talking about potentially hundreds of children.”
Mr Collins said busloads of people had planned to join a silent protest outside Ballarat’s St Patrick’s Cathedral on Monday.
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