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 Anglican 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, before his time as Australia’s 23rd governor general.