AUSTRALIA
Sydney Morning Herald
Eoin Blackwell
The Christian Brothers has no future unless the order confronts the devastation caused by child sexual abuse, says one of its most senior officials, amid revelations the congregation has spent $21 million in compensation claims.
Julian McDonald, the deputy provincial leader for the Christian Brothers Province of Oceania, on Tuesday told the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse that victims were being “chopped up” by lengthy litigation.
“I said at the recent Christian Brothers chapter in Nairobi: ‘There’s no future for the Christian Brothers until we address the devastation that some of our brothers have caused by child sexual abuse – no future unless and until we do that,'” he said.
He said he has told religious leaders “not to go the way of litigation”.
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