John Howard has paid tribute to former governor-general of Australia and retired Anglican bishop Peter Hollingworth after his death, aged 91.<\/p>\n
The former Australian Prime Minister issued a statement to honour Dr Hollingworth\u2019s \u201clong life\u201d that was \u201csustained by his strong Christian faith.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNone was more important, both as to the intensity of his commitment and results demonstrated, than the years he spent with the Brotherhood of St. Laurence in Victoria: an Anglican inspired welfare organisation committed to helping the disadvantaged and, in particular, reducing poverty amongst children,\u201d Mr Howard said.<\/p>\n
\u201cMany believe that Hollingworth\u2019s work, both as its Director, and more generally a member of the Brotherhood, did more to shape national policy in the final decades of the 20th century than the advocacy of any other person.<\/p>\n
Dr Hollingwoth became the first cleric appointed as Governor-General of Australia in 2001 under Howard\u2019s term.<\/p>\n
The former Prime Minister reflected on Dr Hollingworth\u2019s time as an Archbishop in Brisbane and Chairman of the Council but acknowledged the controversy following his handling of sex abuse allegations.<\/p>\n
\u201cRegrettably, the controversy over his handling of sex abuse by clergy in the Archdiocese of Brisbane has coloured recent commentary about him.,\u201d Mr Howard added.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs someone who abhorred the sexual abuse of anyone \u2013 particularly children \u2013 in the Church or elsewhere, he addressed these issues in a candid manner, acknowledging his own failings.<\/p>\n
\u201cJanette joins me in expressing our deep condolences to Peter Hollingworth\u2019s three daughters and their extended families.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"John Howard has paid tribute to former governor-general of Australia and retired Anglican bishop Peter Hollingworth after his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":682536,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44,84],"class_list":["post-682535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=682535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/682536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=682535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=682535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=682535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}