AUSTRALIA
Courier Mail
MADONNA KING THE COURIER-MAIL FEBRUARY 22, 2014
MADONNA King pens a letter to Brisbane’s Roman Catholic Archbishop Mark Coleridge in the light of this week’s royal commission evidence.
YOUR Grace, I’m Roman Catholic to the boot straps. I’m also the mother of two young girls, both attending cracker Brisbane Catholic schools.
But I’m running out of excuses on how to answer the growing evidence that the Church has snubbed, hid, brushed-off, facilitated – I could go on but you probably get my point – this sexual abuse epidemic.
Up until now, I’ve been saying what the Church says; that many institutions suffered the same shameful problems, but once alerted steps were taken blah blah blah.
That fitted with me. It was a painful episode in history, but it was all over, done and dusted.
But that’s not true, is it? In fact, the royal commission evidence this week shows that answer is a sham.
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