When the Bishop Was Believed, and the Boys Were Not

The former Catholic Bishop of Broome, Christopher Saunders, has finally been convicted of sexually abusing young Aboriginal men. But the most damning fact in this case may be that the system had years to protect those vulnerable men—and failed. Saunders was not an obscure priest operating in the shadows. He was a bishop for 25 years. Ordained a priest in 1976, he became Bishop of Broome in 1996.…