AUSTRALIA
ABC News
Adelaide’s Catholic Archbishop Philip Wilson has announced he will return to his post this month, despite facing a charge of concealing child sexual abuse.
Wilson has been on indefinite leave since March, when he was charged by New South Wales police.
The charge relates to when he was a junior priest, living and working in the Hunter Valley.
Wilson has pleaded not guilty to concealing the serious indictable offence of the now-dead paedophile priest James Fletcher in the 1970s.
In a letter published on the Catholic Archdiocese’s website, Wilson said he had “decided that it is now appropriate for me to end my leave and resume my duties as Archbishop of Adelaide”.
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