Jailed Australian bishop retains clerical rank, prompting calls for Vatican to defrock him

Jailed Australian bishop retains clerical rank, prompting calls for Vatican to defrock him

Former Broome bishop Christopher Saunders, 76, remains a senior cleric despite being sentenced to six and a half years by Western Australia's District Court for abusing two young Indigenous men between 2010 and 2019. The jailing has prompted growing calls for the Catholic Church to defrock him.

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