Newly published counsel to the child abuse royal commission rejects
Cardinal George Pell’s evidence regarding known church abusers. In popular renderings the devil appears sly and cultured, artfully
subtle in his manipulations. Man must ward against his guileful
incursions, made through the windows of lust and vanity.
But there was nothing subtle about Father Peter Searson. For decades, the priest was wildly and unapologetically deviant. Ordained in Rome in 1962, in church circles Searson was notorious by 1984, when senior clergy exiled him not to police custody but an outer-Melbourne parish. Once there, he would terrorise the children of Doveton for 13 years.
https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/religion/2016/11/05/george-pell-evidence-rejected-royal-commission-counsel-submissions
But there was nothing subtle about Father Peter Searson. For decades, the priest was wildly and unapologetically deviant. Ordained in Rome in 1962, in church circles Searson was notorious by 1984, when senior clergy exiled him not to police custody but an outer-Melbourne parish. Once there, he would terrorise the children of Doveton for 13 years.
https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/religion/2016/11/05/george-pell-evidence-rejected-royal-commission-counsel-submissions