AUSTRALIA
The Age
September 24, 2019
By Farrah Tomazin, Chris Vedelago and Debbie Cuthbertson
Australia’s Catholic Church is considering scrapping the centuries-old system of training priests in seminaries, which helped create some of the country’s worst paedophiles.
Two years after a royal commission exposed the scale of child abuse in the church, Catholic leaders are already quietly reshaping the way clergy are appointed, with new screening and monitoring protocols for seminary candidates and a revamped “national program of priestly formation” being developed.
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