AUSTRALIA
The Courier-Mail
Mike O’Connor
From:The Courier-Mail
July 09, 2012
STOP me if you’ve heard this one – allegations that a Catholic priest has sexually abused boys are investigated by the Church and no action is taken.
Some stories get better with the telling but not this one, which has been told too many times already and was reiterated in sickening detail on the ABC’s Four Corners program last week.
I watched the show at home with my partner, who, as men claiming to have been sodomised and had fellatio performed on them by priests related their experiences in grim detail, kept glancing at me.
She is not of the faith. I am – and I knew what she was thinking.
How can the Church, your Church, have failed to act in the face of substantive claims of abuse and subsequent suicide?
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