Bishop's Revelations Put Cops on to Clerics

By Dan Box
The Australian
June 26, 2013

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/state-politics/bishops-revelations-put-cops-on-to-clerics/story-e6frgczx-1226669768899

A CATHOLIC bishop ordered the release of internal church documents that ultimately led police to investigate some of the church's most senior clerics over the alleged cover-up of child abuse committed by priests.

During 2009, a NSW state government inquiry into the alleged cover-up has heard, the then Bishop of Maitland-Newcastle, Michael Malone, ordered the documents be provided to a victim of this abuse.