Child Sex Abuse Victims Outraged over Catholic Church Plans to Hold Memorial Mass for Discraced Bishop Ronald Mulkearns

By Shannon Deery
Herald Sun
May 5, 2016

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THE Catholic Church will hold a memorial mass for disgraced bishop Ronald Mulkearns in a move that has angered victims of child sexual abuse.

After giving him a pauper’s funeral last month the church will now pay respects to the man who facilitated the abuse of hundreds of innocent children while Bishop of Ballarat.

Current Ballarat bishop Paul Bird will celebrate the mass.

“This will be an opportunity for priests and people from around the diocese to come together to offer Mass for Bishop Mulkearns,” an announcement on the Ballarat diocese’s website said.

Many priests who worked under Bishop Mulkearns were instructed not to attend his modest funeral.