AUSTRALIA
Herald Sun
AAP
CHURCH groups should be ready to cop heavy criticism in the wake of the royal commission into child sex abuse, Brisbane’s Anglican Archbishop Phillip Aspinall says.
The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse featured strongly in the archbishop’s address at the Brisbane diocese’s synod on Saturday.
He told hundreds of Anglicans the challenge for them is not that the “truth will come out”.
“It will. And we want it to even though there will be times when we will feel ashamed and sickened at that truth,” he said.
He says the Anglican Church called for a royal inquiry into child sex abuse in 2002.
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