The archbishop, the paedophile priest, the compassionate church employee and the damage done

IT’S one of the most spectacular own goals in Catholic Church history – how Archbishop Philip Wilson’s refusal to meet with a Newcastle child sex victim in 2008 laid the groundwork for his conviction for concealing a crime, a special commission of inquiry and a royal commission. It’s the extraordinary story of Anthea Halpin, notorious paedophile priest Denis McAlinden, the face-to-face apology from Wilson that never came and the documents that have helped change history.

https://www.bordermail.com.au/news/national/5430242/archbishops-spectacular-own-goal-the-missed-cuppa-thats-changing-history/