Catholic diocese urged to come clean on panel resignations

AUSTRALIA
ABC News

A clergy abuse survivors group wants clarification on who has resigned from a panel set up to determine the future of two Hunter Catholic priests.

A Special Commission of Inquiry into child sexual abuse found Monsignor Allan Hart and Father William Burston to be unimpressive witnesses, prompting calls for them to resign.

A seven-member independent panel was set up by the Catholic diocese to determine their future, but two members have quit and only one has been replaced, delaying its final report.

Bob O’Toole from the Clergy Abuse Network says he has several concerns.

“We don’t know of the two resignations which ones went,” he said.

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