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The Catholic Church still has not got its act together and needs outside help to change a culture which has protected pedophile priests, an inquiry has heard.
Retired priest Fr John McKinnon said the church would never have held a royal commission into itself and needs people from the outside looking in to change its culture.
“I just think that we need help, but it will have to be help that we don’t want, in a sense. Help that’s hard for us to face,” Fr McKinnon told the child abuse royal commission.
“I just wonder whether we almost need to get to a stage where we’ve got to face the wall before we bounce back in a realistic way. But I hope this helps us, I really do.”
Fr McKinnon said there were a lot of failures by advisers to former Ballarat bishop Ronald Mulkearns on the College of Consultors.
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