NEW ZEALAND
RNZ
October 11, 2019
By Phil Pennington
The dark past of the Dunedin diocese and its clutch of clerical paedophiles** still ensnares Marc. But he means to be free of it.
One drunken night in 2013 in Melbourne, Marc* wrote an email to the Catholic Church in New Zealand. He was drunk a lot back then.
“I could drink half a bottle of vodka right now and probably still have a lucid conversation with you,” he said. Not now, now he’s dry.
He was a functioning alcoholic back then, but still, he couldn’t remember sending the email.
“The first line, and this was five years ago, was, ‘If there’s ever a Royal Commission in New Zealand, I will come back and give evidence’.
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