Vatican's Punishment for Lismore Paedophile ...

By Janet Fife-Yeomans
The Telegraph
December 19, 2013

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/vaticans-punishment-for-lismore-paedophile-priest-was-to-live-a-life-of-prayer-and-penance-and-offer-mass/story-fni0cx12-1226786566580



THE punishment for a Lismore paedophile priest as ordered by the Vatican was to live a life of prayer and penance and offer mass every Friday for the intention of his victims.

This was despite him admitting to his numerous "crimes", the royal commission into institutionalised responses to child sex abuse has been told.

The priest involved remains a priest although he is in retirement and $50,000 was paid to a victim by the church.

His identity remains a secret although he was reported to Grafton Police, to the NSW Ombudsman and to the Commissioner for Children and Young People and has been banned from unsupervised contact with children.

The Bishop of Lismore, Geoffrey Jarrett, has been recalled to the commission to be quizzed about how many priests he has referred to the Vatican under its 2001 edict that cases of clerical child sex abuse must be referred to the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith.