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Australian Catholics should stand up to Rome over its response to child sexual abuse and demand a fair go for victims, a royal commission has heard.
A psychiatrist who worked for the St John of God Brothers before leaving over concerns about systemic abuse and corruption, delivered a scathing assessment of the church’s response to child sex offences during evidence on Tuesday.
Michelle Mulvihill told the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse priests were currently almost “unsackable” and that all pastoral care workers should be registered.
“It’s time for us, as Australians, to stand up to Rome and say ‘We are not little Rome, we are not little Italy’,” Dr Mulvihill said in Sydney.
“We are Australians and in Australia we believe in a fair go.”
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