AUSTRALIA
Sunshine Coast Daily
Kathy Sundstrom | 15th Feb 2016
FATHER Joe Duffy admits he feels embarrassed by the extent of the abuse which has been revealed in the Catholic Church.
The Maroochydore Parish Priest was ordained during the dark period of history when priests were abusing children and getting away with it.
But he said if he was to blame for anything within the church in the 1950s to 1980s, it was that he was “naive and unaware” of what was going on.
“I grew up in a decent, good family and child abuse just wasn’t talked about,” he said.
“I had no personal experience of this type of thing and in the 1950s, it was either a taboo topic or wasn’t mentioned.
“We can’t excuse ourselves on that basis any more than we can excuse ourselves for buying a ticket on a plane that crashed.”
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