A major scandal is looming within a Sydney Catholic school as Australian government-appointed auditors probe decades of payments to nuns as well as a mysterious multimillion-dollar loan. A Sydney Morning Herald investigation has revealed alleged financial irregularities at St Maroun's College at Dulwich Hill are fracturing relations within the school and the order of nuns that control it. Several sources associated with St Maroun's claim that the school in the city's Inner West may have been improperly using funds to subsidise the attached convent and the living expenses of nuns. At the centre of the dispute within St Maroun's is a A$3.4 million ($3.7m) loan, which several senior figures connected to the school believe may not be genuine. Ernst & Young has asked for a trove of information from St Maroun's, including records of religious allowances dating back to the 1990s.

Source: Stuff October 08, 2018 01:41 UTC