QUEENSLAND (AUSTRALIA)
Brisbane Times (AAP)

December 18, 2017

A Catholic priest in Queensland has told his congregation the church is a flawed institution, and Australian archbishops must fight for change to stop sexual abuse.

Father Peter Schultz used his homily on Sunday to personally apologise to anyone who’d suffered abuse, which he said was the fault of the church hierarchy.

“We are a flawed institution and we have to own that fact,” he told followers at St Thomas More’s Church in South Toowoomba, just a few days after the royal commission into institutional abuse handed down its final report.