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Church’s appeal loss paves way for abuse survivors to sue We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Church’s appeal loss paves way for abuse survivors to sue Save Normal text size Advertisement The Catholic Church has failed in its appeal over a compensation payout to a sexual abuse survivor, and now faces the prospect of being sued by hundreds of other victims who received meagre payments in exchange for their silence. A former altar boy known as WCB was in 1996 paid $32,500 by the church after he was repeatedly abused by Warragul prie...

In the wake of Cardinal George Pell’s successful appeal to the High Court of Australia, and his release from jail after 404 days, several books purporting to be “investigative journalism” have appeared about this astonishing miscarriage of justice. All of them have been hostile towards Pell. After reading Windschuttle is an historian and editor of Quadrant, a conservative Australian literary, cultural and political magazine. Ever since Pell was charged in 2017, he welcomed well-researched articles on the case. With the help of this extensive commentary, he has dug far deeper than Loui...