Newcastle Herald editorial: It’s time to challenge the Catholic Church over whether it’s really changed

AUSTRALIA
Newcastle Herald

March 16, 2020

HUNTER paedophile priest Vince Ryan is good at playing the victim, despite truly horrific crimes against children that include forcing boys as young as nine to attempt anal intercourse in a church with other boys, for his sick pleasure.

Men died too young after they were raped and sexually assaulted by Ryan. He was a protected species who could and should have been stopped from the early 1970s, but wasn’t because of the senior clerics above who covered up his crimes.

Hunter Catholics have been warned that the ABC series Revelation, presented by Sarah Ferguson from Tuesday and featuring an interview with Ryan, will be confronting. That’s if they watch it, and they should.

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