AUSTRALIA
The Catholic Leader
Published: 15 July 2012
By: Paul Dobbyn
YOUTH worker Salesian Father Chris Riley has described recent Four Corners reports of the cover up of sexual abuse of minors in the Catholic Church as “sickening and disappointing”.
However, Towards Healing executive officer Missionary of the Sacred Heart priest Fr Tim Brennan and Bravehearts founder and executive director Hetty Johnston have both rejected demands for a national Royal Commission focused solely on allegations of sexual abuse of minors in the Catholic Church.
Fr Brennan said such calls were “simplistic”.
Ms Johnston said it was “shallow indeed to concentrate on just one organisation – at end of the day it’s to do with kids being sexually assaulted and the cover-ups which occur.”
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