Just after 10am on Sunday, inside Victoria's oldest and
busiest Catholic church, the congregation will hear something
extraordinarily rare.
A senior church official will tell those seated in the pews at St Francis on Lonsdale Street that their one-time priest, Tom Knowles, has become the first in Australia to be defrocked for having a "long-term inappropriate sexual relationship" with a woman.
http://www.theage.com.au/national/investigations/church-apology-for-a-14year-sexual-relationship-an-australian-first-20161130-gt0phr.html
A senior church official will tell those seated in the pews at St Francis on Lonsdale Street that their one-time priest, Tom Knowles, has become the first in Australia to be defrocked for having a "long-term inappropriate sexual relationship" with a woman.
http://www.theage.com.au/national/investigations/church-apology-for-a-14year-sexual-relationship-an-australian-first-20161130-gt0phr.html