![]() NEWS.com.au | Senior Catholic cleric 'pledged silence' on child abuse The Australian ONE OF Australia's most senior Catholic clerics allegedly told a priest facing claims he was a pedophile that any confession to child abuse would be kept between himself, the priest and the bishop. Brian Lucas, the general secretary of the Australian ... Calls multiply for inquiry into handling of sex abuse Senior Catholics implicated in child sex cover-up Senior Catholic priests in child-sex cover-up inquiry |