Australia's Prime Minister, Malcom Turbull called on Pope Francis to fire an Australian archbishop who is the most senior Roman Catholic cleric ever convicted for covering up child sexual abuse.
Turnbull said two weeks ago that Adelaide Archbishop Philip Wilson should have resigned when he was convicted in May of failing to report to police the repeated abuse of two altar boys by a pedophile priest in the Hunter Valley region north of Sydney during the 1970s.
He said the 67‑year‑old cleric should not be allowed to remain an archbishop while he appealed against his conviction.
Turnbull told reporters that Philip Wilson should have resigned and the time has come for the pope to sack him.
[Source:Stuff.co.nz]
