AUSTRALIA
Leader
April 18, 2016
Nicholas Payne
Mordialloc Chelsea Leader
PARENTS of students at two Catholic schools are refusing to allow their children to take important sacraments with the schools’ priest.
About 60 per cent of year 2 students at St Patrick’s Parish Primary School in Mentone and St John Vianney’s Primary School in Parkdale will attend other churches as the parents’ push for administrator Father John Walshe to resign continues.
The students were due to take part in sacraments of reconciliation and eucharist.
The Parent Committee Mentone Parkdale — the group calling for Fr Walshe’s dismissal — said “more than 60 per cent” of year 2 families from the schools would go elsewhere, including “32 out of the 44 at St Patrick’s”.
“People don’t want Fr Walshe celebrating Mass with their children,” committee member Andrew Pope said.
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