AUSTRALIA
Cairns Post
By Rebekah Ison, Australian Associated Press
February 8, 2017
One of Australia’s most senior Catholics says the church is a law unto itself and needs to change its culture.
Archbishop of Brisbane Mark Coleridge told the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse the church must put a “culture of concealment” behind it.
Commissioner Robert Fitzgerald asked whether it was too harsh to say the church in Australia still hadn’t embraced the notion of transparency as good practice.
“I think that’s probably true, that we haven’t yet embraced adequately a transparency that is appropriate and even necessary for an unusual community of communities like the Catholic Church,” Archbishop Coleridge replied in Sydney.
“We are, as it were, a law and a world unto ourselves.”
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