In May 2016, the Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse released Issues Paper 11 – Catholic Church Final Hearing,
inviting submissions for its final Catholic Church hearing scheduled
for three weeks 6-24 February 2017. That hearing will review the horror
of clerical child sexual abuse and the Church’s cover-up and protection
of abusing clergy, including “factors that may have affected the
institutional response of the Catholic Church to child sexual abuse.”
The hearing will doubtless attempt to answer the question asked by many
Catholics: How could the leadership of our Church behave in this way whilst continuing to espouse and teach Christian values?
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