The religious congregation co-founded by Blessed Mary MacKillop has confirmed reports that one reason clergy put pressure on a bishop to "destroy" her was that members of the order spoke out about a suspected child-abusing priest.
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation programme Compass was scheduled to broadcast on Sunday that angry clergy pressurised Adelaide Bishop Lawrence Shiel to "destroy" the nun after they heard that sisters reported Irish Fr Patrick Keating, from the Kapunda parish north of Adelaide, was allegedly abusing children. The nuns reported the abuse to Blessed MacKillop's co-founder, Fr Julian Tenison Woods.
