AUSTRALIA
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Ah! If only we here in Australia had the benefit of the members of the United Nations (U.N.) committee who have just given the Vatican officials such a grilling over that “state’s” failures under it obligations under the International Rights of the Child convention.
These few committee members were referred to as members of an “obscure” committee of the U.N., yet they have put the world spotlight on the Vatican’s duplicity in handling its abusive priests. None of them had the grandiose title of something like “Royal Commissioner”. They were not in awe of the Vatican officials, like the Vatican’s “ambassador” to the U.N. Their questions were spot on, to the point and consistent.
Here in Australia we have had a royal commission running for over a year and it has only spent a few days on the Catholic Church. Even with this, it has only investigated the small matter of how victim complaints were dealt with. It did not call up (as it has the power to do), the head of the church in Australia, Cardinal George Pell, to explain himself.
The U.N. committee was composed of “young Turks” who still had a bit of fire in their blood. Here, we have a chief commissioner who is old, establishment and should have retired to one of his vineyards by now.
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