An Australian bishop told a special commission of inquiry into sexual abuse that he failed to familiarize himself with the personnel file of a serial pedophile priest ‘because the whole area of sexual abuse is so distasteful that I would have found it very unpalatable to dig further.'” By Stephen Crittenden, National Catholic Reporter
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