The Defrocking of Roger Herft (Guest: Mr Garth Blake AM SC)
Episode 12, Oct 31, 2022, 08:00 PM
Roger Herft was a long-time Bishop of the Anglican Church in Australia. But when an investigation revealed a pattern of inaction toward reports of sexual abuse by other church employees, he was "defrocked." Mr Garth Blake, Chair of the Safe Ministry Commission of the Anglican Church of Australia, joins me to talk about the case.
Read the decision of the Episcopal Standards Board of the Anglican Church of Australia here.
Mr Garth Blake’s article in the Ecclesiastical Law Journal can be found here.
Theme Music: "Sunbeams in the Stained Glass" Oleksandr Viktorovych Lukyanenko, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
Mr Garth Blake’s article in the Ecclesiastical Law Journal can be found here.
Theme Music: "Sunbeams in the Stained Glass" Oleksandr Viktorovych Lukyanenko, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons