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Article: Fed: Hollingworth made serious error, says Archbishop
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- AAP General News (Australia)
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- May 1, 2003
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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 ...