AUSTRALIA
The Tablet (UK)
Patrick Parkinson, Professor of law at Sydney University, delivers 2013 Smith Lecture
30 October 2013
Delivering the annual Smith Lecture in Sydney last week, Patrick Parkinson, professor of law at the University of Sydney, said the Vatican’s ‘misguided’ belief that child sexual abuse cases ought to be dealt with by the Church through canon law, and its support for the ‘culture of clericalism’, established the conditions for the Church’s handling of the problem and made it ‘very difficult for bishops who wanted to deal with things differently’.
Read the text of the lecture here.
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