Associates allege Catholic authorities pressured cardinal to cut sections on jailed clergyman Michael Hill
The Catholic church has been accused of pressuring one of its senior figures to censor extracts of his memoirs relating to a sexual abuse scandal.
Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor, the former leader of the church in England and Wales, is said to have been forced to cut chunks from his new book, relating to the crisis in his ministry in which he failed to report a paedophile priest to the police, and let him continue working. The clergyman, Michael Hill, was later jailed twice for sexually assaulting young victims.
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