ADELAIDE (AUSTRALIA)
The Advertiser
July 20, 2018
By Elizabeth Henson
https://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/national-council-of-priests-of-australia-ask-pope-to-sack-philip-wilson-as-adelaide-archbishop/news-story/f627000dc2c90fe1a4d34d18ee5ffa52
The National Council of Priests of Australia has joined growing calls for disgraced Archbishop Philip Wilson to be sacked after he was convicted of covering up the sexual abuse of altar boys.
The council is appealing to Pope Francis to step in and fire Wilson, 67.
“For the good of the church in Australia and for the benefit of the people of God in the Archdiocese of Adelaide, the executive of the (council) requests that the Holy Father, Pope Francis, removes Archbishop Philip Wilson from his See,” the council said in a statement on Friday evening.
It came a day after Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull also lobbied the Pope to fire Wilson, who was sentenced to 12 months’ jail over his silence about a paedophile priest’s sex offending.
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