AUSTRALIA
The Age
June 5, 2014
David Ellery
Reporter for The Canberra Times.
The Catholic Archbishop of Goulburn and Canberra has written to parishioners to prepare them ahead of next week’s visit to Canberra by the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.
He has also asked Catholics to pray for the victims who will be giving evidence over two weeks from next Tuesday.
“They [the commissioners] will be examining the way in which the Marist Brothers responded to allegations of child sexual abuse in their schools in the ACT, NSW and Queensland,’’ Archbishop Christopher Prowse said.
“I write to prepare you for the public testimonies of the very sad experiences of some victims.
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