AUSTRALIA
9 News
AAP
The Catholic Church in Australia accepts there have been deep failures in its past approach to the seminary life of priests, the child sex abuse royal commission has heard.
Commissioner Robert Fitzgerald on Monday asked if the church recognised there were deep failures in the seminary approaches of the past and that seminary life was unhealthy in the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s.
Archdiocese of Sydney Auxiliary Bishop Anthony Randazzo replied: “I think there is an acknowledgement that there were aspects of the formation in the past that were not as good as they could have been and that they did contribute to the shortcomings within this area that we’re talking about.”
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