AUSTRALIA
The Australian
Dan Box
From:The Australian
July 06, 2012
TWO senior clerics at the centre of the latest sex scandal to engulf the Catholic Church have given conflicting accounts of a meeting 20 years ago where a priest admitted abusing young boys.
Brian Lucas, secretary-general of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference, was one of three church officials who interviewed the priest in 1992, when he allegedly confessed to groping and performing oral sex on altar boys.
Yesterday, Father Lucas said the priest, known as Father F for legal reasons, “made no admissions of a specific nature”.
“He was very careful about not naming any names and, on that basis, we didn’t have anything we could take to police,” Father Lucas said.
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