AUSTRALIA
Crux
Catholic News Service February 7, 2017
CONTRIBUTOR
SYDNEY, Australia – Catholic experts told an Australian government commission that the church needed to re-examine its culture of clericalism if it wanted to help put an end to clergy sexual abuse.
Several experts also told the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse that the church needed the commission’s help to get on the right track.
“The mismanagement of the church is the business of the Royal Commission, in my view, because it has led to the situation that this church is in. If this was a business, we’d be shut down a long time ago,” said Dr. Michelle Mulvihill, psychologist and former Sister of Mercy who has worked with religious orders.
Mulvihill and three others testified on February 7 before the Royal Commission as it wraps up more than three years of investigations into the Australian Catholic Church’s response to child sexual abuse.
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