AUSTRALIA
The Australian
May 6, 2017
GREG BEARUP
South Asia correspondent
@gbearup
Despite shocking revelations of widespread abuse within the Catholic Church, there are priests who believe the royal commission into child abuse has been a “hatchet job” and one has blamed “homosexuals and liberals” for the church’s woes.
In February, it was revealed in the royal commission that 4445 people had made complaints against almost 2000 alleged Catholic perpetrators; in one order, the St John of God Brothers, 40 per cent of the clergy had allegedly abused children.
However, Glen Tattersall, a Melbourne-based parish priest, told The Weekend Australian that many Catholics were angry with the way the royal commission has dealt with the church.
Father Tattersall, a former office bearer in the conservative Australian Confraternity of Catholic Clergy, said: “I think people are quite angry about the way the church has been dealt with, actually. They consider it has been pretty much set up.”
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