PERTH (AUSTRALIA)
WAtoday
December 15 2017
By Hannah Barry
Archbishop Timothy Costelloe says the Catholic Church in WA “must act” in order to address concerns of child sex abuse within its institutions after the Royal Commission handed down its final report on Friday.
The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse delivered its report to the Governor General of Australia and made 198 recommendations aimed at better protecting children from sexual abuse in Australia.
Archbishop Costelloe told Radio 6PR it was to his “great shame and horror” the Catholic Church featured heavily in the investigations.
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