Article: Fed: Hollingworth made serious error, says Archbishop

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Fed: Hollingworth made serious error, says Archbishop

By Paul Osborne

BRISBANE, May 1 AAP - Peter Hollingworth had committed a "serious error of judgment"

in allowing a self-confessed child abuser to continue as a priest, Anglican Archbishop of Brisbane Phillip Aspinall said today.

A report into the church's handling of abuse allegations tabled in Queensland parliament today found that the former Archbishop and now Governor-General allowed now-jailed former priest, the Reverend John Elliot, to continue despite knowing he had sexually abused boys.

"I believe it is incumbent on me as Archbishop of Brisbane to express my firm view that to ...

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