Peter Hollingworth’s decision to cease practising as a priest not enough, abuse survivors say

Beth Heinrich and others want the former archbishop to be defrocked and stripped of Holy Orders

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Abuse survivors are maintaining a push for Peter Hollingworth to be defrocked despite the former archbishop's decision to cease practising as a priest, urging the church to finally do the right thing".

Hollingworth last week announced he would voluntarily cease practising as a priest, handing back his permission to officiate after a continued outcry over his failures to act on pedophile priests while Brisbane archbishop in the 1990s, prior to his time as Australia's 23rd governor general.

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