AUSTRALIA
Catholic Leader
Posted by: Mark Bowling
CHURCH leaders are bracing for a grim and confronting final hearing into the Catholic Church at the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.
The three-week hearing in Sydney, set down to start … (February 6), aims to establish how widespread abuse was and what cultural issues allowed it to occur within the Church in Australia.
Brisbane Archbishop Mark Coleridge is preparing to appear several times during the hearing.
“Through these three weeks there will be some grim moments and there will be some shocks, inevitably,” Archbishop Coleridge said in a video message to parishioners.
Archbishop Coleridge, a supervisory council member of the Catholic Church’s Truth, Justice and Healing Council, described the Royal Commission as “long and agonising, but a very important journey for the Church and many others as well”.
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