Frank Walker

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Welcome back, folks.

Well, in 10 minutes, we'll be back with Jenny Holland to learn more about the absolute decimation of the Catholic faith in the once former Catholic Church.

island um but i think all of the stories today are of a piece frank walker i'm sure you'll agree with me that there's a certain winning theme through this let's go now to florida to your neck of the woods father former father he has been defrocked but father

Neil Doherty.

This is a guy who has been described, and I quote, as probably the most prolific paedophile priest in US history.

Tell us a bit about Father Doherty.

It's exactly that.

That is exactly the case.

They use these little...

pious expressions that means one thing to the Catholic parents, to the parish, and to the laities, they all know that it means something completely different.

Because as you say,

The church used to screen out its applicants for ordination, guys with these tendencies.

And then at around this stage, it was right, I think it was the 20 years before the Second Vatican Council and the 20 years following it.

That was mostly where these abuses took place.

20 years before the council, 20 years after.

Then they started screening him.

They wouldn't let you go forward for ordination if you weren't part of the lavender mafia, as we say from time to time on this show.

You mentioned that psychological evaluation, Frank Walker.

I just want to repeat that, right?