DUNEDIN (NEW ZEALAND)
Otago Daily Times
January 10, 2019
By Chris Morris
The Catholic Bishop of Dunedin is still not ready to decide on a name change for Kavanagh College, but insists he is ‘‘working quite hard’’ on the issue.
Bishop Michael Dooley was commenting as ODT Insight yesterday asked him for updates on the issues of historic abuse being tackled within the Dunedin diocese and nationally.
Among those issues was a push by survivors, their supporters and a group of former Kavanagh College pupils to rename the Dunedin Catholic college.
Bishop Dooley had delayed a decision in November, despite months of revelations about historic abuse within the Dunedin diocese — much of it under then-Bishop John Kavanagh — a public meeting and a petition.
Instead, he would only say at the time he was ‘‘seriously’’ considering a name change, without giving a timeline.
He declined to give a time-line again yesterday, saying he was still listening to arguments on both sides.
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