http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/australian-bishop-sentenced-cover-up-child-sex-abuse-1.4731452Philip Thomas, Catholic Archbishop of Adelaide, has been sentenced to twelve months' detention for his role in covering up child abuse by James Fletcher in the 1970s, a pedophile who repeatedly abused two altar boys.
Thomas is the highest-ranking Catholic official to be convicted anywhere in the world over the pedophilia scandals in the Catholic Church.
State governments in Australia are considering laws that would obligate Catholic priests to report allegations of child abuse or other revelations of pedophilia made in the confessional, particularly South Australia, Tasmania, and the Australian Capital Territory. However Greg O'Kelly, acting Archbishop of Adelaide, has said that priests would defy any such laws, despite their being recommended in December 2017 by a Royal Commission looking into child abuse, saying, "Politicians can change the law, but we can't change the nature of the confessional."
Meanwhile, charges against Cardinal-Archbishop George Pell on pedophilia allegations (not just a coverup as with Archbishop Wilson--he is accused of pedophilia) are pending trial in his home state of Victoria.