“We’ve had many, many issues raised with us — multiple concerns,” she said. In
December, Father Walshe was asked to make a statement by Cardinal
George Pell’s legal team at the Royal Commission into Institutional
Responses to Child Sexual Abuse about his recollection of a 1993 phone
call between Cardinal Pell and a child abuse victim.
It
emerged Father Walshe had years earlier been accused of abusing an
18-year-old seminarian in the early 1980s after the pair had been
drinking together.