AUSTRALIA
The Australian
November 10, 2016
DAN BOX
Crime reporterSydney
@DanBox10
The Catholic Archbishop of Adelaide, Philip Wilson, has been ordered to give evidence in court about his knowledge of child abuse committed by one of the church’s worst pedophile priests.
Senior cleric Brian Lucas, who was recently described before a royal commission as one of “the architects of the church’s response” to child sex abuse, has also been issued with a similar subpoena by the NSW Supreme Court.
Both men have been ordered to attend a hearing this month and to provide documents relating to discussions with or about the late Denis McAlinden, a priest of the diocese of Maitland-Newcastle who abused dozens of children between the 1950s and 1980s.
Both have also been the subject of recent police inquiries relating to their knowledge of other pedophile priests.
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