Archbishop Admits To ‘Castastrophic’ Failure In Leadership Over Child Sex Abuse

AUSTRALIA
Christian Today

Ruth Gledhill EDITOR 23 February 2017

The Catholic Archbishop of Sydney, Anthony Fisher, has told Australia’s Royal Commission into institutional child sex abuse that the response by Catholic Church to allegations amount to ‘criminal negligence’.

Fisher, aged 57, who succeeded Cardinal George Pell as Archbishop of Sydney in 2014, said: ‘It was a kind of criminal negligence to deal with some of the problems that were staring us in the face.

‘In other cases, I think there were people that were just like rabbits in the headlights, they just had no idea what to do, and their performance was appalling,’ he added according to ABC.

Archbishop of Perth Timothy Costelloe admitted there had been a ‘catastrophic’ failure in Church leadership.

He said child sex abuse ran counter to what the Church claimed to be.

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