Senior Cleric Knew of Abuse

By Dan Box
The Australian
July 20, 2013

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/senior-cleric-knew-of-abuse/story-fn59niix-1226682236776

ONE of the most senior officials in the modern Catholic Church was among a committee of clerics who dealt privately with claims a priest sexually abused a child, and did not report this to police, an inquiry has heard.

The NSW Special Commission of Inquiry into church child abuse yesterday heard that Brian Lucas, the general secretary of the national bishops' conference, interviewed one of the priest's victims in 1993.