Fr Tom Doyle on Clerical Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church, ABC Local, April 2, 2010

Fr Tom Doyle on Clerical Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church

ABC Local
April 2, 2010

http://www.abc.net.au/sundaynights/stories/s2863282.htm

[audio presentation]

Tom Doyle is a Dominican priest and a former chaplain and lieutenant colonel in the United States Air Force, a canon lawyer who wrote the section on marriage in Pope John Paul II's revised Code of Canon Law from 1983.

Twenty-five years ago he was warning the US bishops and the Vatican about the catastrophe of clerical sexual abuse, but those reports went unheeded. He has been working on behalf of the victims ever since. Tom Doyle has described the Catholic church in the United States as 'a swamp of toxic waste', and he accused the US bishops of running 'a self-serving public relations campaign by which they continue to try to flip the whole mess around, make themselves look like victims and demonise anyone who has ever challenged their collective stupidity, cruelty and total lack of compassion.'