AUSTRALIA
SBS
Source: AAP
20 SEP 2016
A Catholic Church leader is expected to face more tough questions about his knowledge of former priest John Farrell when the child abuse royal commission resumes on Tuesday.
National director of Catholic Mission Brian Lucas was grilled over a full day on Monday about the church’s response to child sex abuse allegations, including allegations against Fr Farrell.
In the late 1980s and 1990s Fr Lucas was a media spokesman for the Sydney archdiocese and part of a group within the church that dealt with abuse complaints against clergy.
He insisted he did not recall Fr Farrell confessing to the abuse of five boys in Moree, in northern NSW, during a 1992 meeting.
The alleged admissions were recorded in graphic detail in a letter eight days later by another priest who was at the meeting.
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