AUSTRALIA
The Australian
DAN BOX From: The Australian July 25, 2013
ONE of the country’s most powerful Catholics, Brian Lucas, does not remember his private meeting with pedophile priest Denis McAlinden.
But then, Father Lucas met dozens of pedophile priests during the early 1990s, convincing them to resign their positions, but taking no notes of the conversations and not reporting their crimes to the police.
“One had to, in some sense, seduce them to resign,” the general secretary of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference yesterday told the NSW special commission of inquiry into church child abuse.
Working closely with the current chancellor of the Archdiocese of Sydney, John Usher, Father Lucas said he met about 35 alleged pedophiles from across NSW over about six years.
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