Apparently, PM Jacinda Ardern has chosen to exclude faith-based institutions from the government’s promised inquiry into the abuse of children in state care. Any role for religious institutions – eg the Catholic Church – would be only to observe and to learn from any revelations that arise from the inquiry’s self-limiting focus on state-run institutions:
[Ardern] said the primary role of the inquiry was to look at the state's responsibility….She said any religious institution with concerns needed to look at the issue, ask what they have done about the issues and their own history.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1801/S00009/campbell-on-the-inquiry-into-the-abuse-of-children-in-care.htm
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1801/S00009/campbell-on-the-inquiry-into-the-abuse-of-children-in-care.htm
