A retired Catholic bishop has confessed to a "terrible sense of shame
and disgrace" over a failure to act more quickly on allegations of
abuse against his priests and nuns.
Bishop Brian Heenan, who led Rockhampton diocese in Queensland, Australia from 1991 until he retired in 2013, admitted to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse that he had failed the children of the Neerkol orphanage.
http://www.christiantoday.com/article/child.abuse.inquiry.retired.bishop.sorry.for.sexual.abuse.of.children.at.queensland.orphanage/52571.htm
Bishop Brian Heenan, who led Rockhampton diocese in Queensland, Australia from 1991 until he retired in 2013, admitted to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse that he had failed the children of the Neerkol orphanage.
http://www.christiantoday.com/article/child.abuse.inquiry.retired.bishop.sorry.for.sexual.abuse.of.children.at.queensland.orphanage/52571.htm