ADELAIDE (AUSTRALIA)
BBC Australia
July 19, 2018
Australian PM Malcolm Turnbull has called on Pope Francis to sack a Catholic archbishop found guilty of concealing child sexual abuse.
Archbishop of Adelaide Philip Wilson was convicted in May of covering up abuse by a paedophile priest, but has resisted calls to resign.
The most senior Catholic in the world to be convicted of the crime, Wilson has said he will appeal the verdict.
Mr Turnbull said: “The time has come for the Pope himself to sack him.”
Two weeks after Wilson was sentenced to detention, the prime minister said that the “ultimate authority in the Church” must now intervene.
“There are many leaders that have called on him [Wilson] to resign – it is clear that he should resign,” he told reporters in Sydney.
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