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23 June 2018

The Catholic Church turned its back on Father Glen Walsh, says his brother

GLEN Walsh was the whistleblower Catholic priest who died alone in a Newcastle church building in November, only weeks before he was due to give damning evidence at the trial of Archbishop Philip Wilson. He took his own life, aged 55 – a priest who paid a devastating price for reporting Hunter paedophile priest Jim Fletcher to police in 2004, while the archbishop kept silent about what he knew.

https://www.theherald.com.au/story/5445686/sent-to-coventry-the-good-priest-who-broke-ranks-and-reported-child-abuse/?cs=305