AUSTRALIA
Goulburn Post
By ANTONY DUBBER
Nov. 16, 2012
THE Administrator of the Canberra/Goulburn Catholic Archdiocese has come out in support of a Royal Commission into child sexual abuse.
Monsignor John Woods is also calling for meaningful recommendations on a possibly long-running inquiry.
He told the Post that child abuse was a ‘cancer’ that needed to be addressed not only in the Catholic Church but across a broad spectrum of society.
Msgr Woods said the Royal Commission could run for a number of years, as was the case in Ireland, when the church there carried out a thorough and all-encompassing investigation which took nine years.
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