Australia honours for seven clerics including priest critical of Church’s response to abuse revelati

AUSTRALIA
The Tablet (UK)

03 February 2014

Seven Catholic priests have been honoured among 683 recipients of Order of Australia awards late last month – including a Victorian priest, Fr Kevin Dillon, who has criticised the Church’s response to the sexual abuse crisis.

Fr Dillon, the parish priest of Victoria’s second-biggest city, Geelong, was honoured on Australia Day, 26 January, for his service to the Catholic Church in Australia, to health and social welfare support services, and to veterans.

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