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Megan Neil – AAP on April 6, 2016
A former Victorian bishop who moved pedophile priests between parishes will have a small and private funeral.
Bishop Ronald Mulkearns died before completing his evidence to the child abuse royal commission about the Catholic Church’s handling of pedophile priests during his 1971-1997 years in charge of the Ballarat diocese.
Bishop Mulkearns, a priest for 60 years, died from cancer in his Ballarat nursing home on Monday, aged 85.
A funeral mass will be held on Monday morning in the Nazareth House Nursing Home’s chapel.
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