Father John Walshe was the subject of a historical sexual abuse claim. Concerned parents and students at a Melbourne Catholic school
have boycotted mass after calling for their priest to resign over abuse
allegations.
A group of parents at St Patrick's School in Mentone and St John Vianney's School in Parkdale have been demanding that parish priest Father John Walshe stand down. The Catholic priest defended Cardinal George Pell at the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse and has been accused of sexually abusing an 18-year-old seminarian in 1982.
http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/parents-boycott-mass-in-protest-of-priest-involved-in-sex-abuse-20160202-gmjt9c.html
A group of parents at St Patrick's School in Mentone and St John Vianney's School in Parkdale have been demanding that parish priest Father John Walshe stand down. The Catholic priest defended Cardinal George Pell at the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse and has been accused of sexually abusing an 18-year-old seminarian in 1982.
http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/parents-boycott-mass-in-protest-of-priest-involved-in-sex-abuse-20160202-gmjt9c.html