AUSTRALIA
The Standard
ANDREW THOMSON
22 Feb 2017
WARRNAMBOOL’S St Joseph’s Primary School is reviewing whether it is appropriate to retain a plaque with the name of a disgraced former Bishop of Ballarat.
The review of the plaque, which marks the school’s opening on its Botanic Road site, comes after a victim of clergy abuse called for such plaques to be removed. One has been removed at another Warrnambool school.
The victim said the former Bishop of Ballarat Ronald Mulkearns failed in his duty to protect children from abuse, was aware of clergy abuse and had failed to act.
The victim said he refused to enter churches or schools with such plaques because of Bishop Mulkearns’ reign over a systemic abuse.
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