Tuesday, 31 July 2018

Adelaide archbishop Philip Wilson resigns after covering up child abuse

Pope accepts resignation from Wilson, who is appealing his conviction

The pope has accepted the resignation of Philip Wilson as archbishop of Adelaide after he was convicted of concealing child abuse, in a further sign of the Vatican’s struggle to keep on top of a series of scandals.

In May, Wilson became the most senior Catholic cleric to be convicted of not disclosing to police abuse by another priest. He failed to report the abuse of two altar boys by James Fletcher, a paedophile priest, in the 1970s.

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