Australia's bishops are under increasing pressure to make child abuse reports public after nuns, brothers and friars "favour" release

By Joanne McCarthy
Updated July 12 2018 - 9:01am, first published 6:00am
Future: Australian Catholic Bishops Conference president Archbishop Mark Coleridge will chair an extraordinary meeting of bishops in early August to discuss the church's response to the child abuse royal commission.
Future: Australian Catholic Bishops Conference president Archbishop Mark Coleridge will chair an extraordinary meeting of bishops in early August to discuss the church's response to the child abuse royal commission.

AUSTRALIAN orders of nuns and brothers have broken from Catholic bishops and called for public release of church-commissioned reports responding to the child abuse royal commission.

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