AUSTRALIA
Goulburn Post
David Cole
David Cole@davecole66
21 Feb 2017
“IT is now time to listen,” Catholic Archbishop of Canberra and Goulburn Christopher Prowse told the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse in Sydney on Tuesday.
“When I go back into the Archdiocese, I have it in my heart to hold listening sessions in the regional areas. I want to gather the victims and their families – it has been like a bush fire going through the Catholic Church in terms of faith and people’s trust in us.”
He referred to the victims of sexual abuse as “wounded healers” and said the Catholic Church had to move forward with them.
“We need to go ahead with them walking beside us, directing us, working with us. When I read those statistics that the average age was only 11…” Archbishop Prowse said, at a loss for words.
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