AUSTRALIA
Bendigo Advertiser
By Shane Worrell
Feb. 16, 2016
BENDIGO Bishop Andrew Curnow says he feels a “great sense of shame” about incidents of child sexual abuse in the Anglican Church and believes it faces a tough battle regaining credibility.
Bishop Curnow, head of the Anglican Diocese of Bendigo, said the actions of clergymen across the country and the response from bishops aware of abuse had severely damaged the public’s view of the church.
Such actions have been recounted at the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sex Abuse in recent weeks.
“I felt a great sense of shame to sit there and look at the way our church behaved,” he said.
“Not only the way it behaved but what appeared to me … to be the inability of the church to deal with it – the absolute mishmash the bishops at the time made of it by not acting decidedly and appropriately.
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