AUSTRALIA
Australian Associated Press, appearing in the Daily Mail
December 9, 2017
The Australian Catholic Church must do more to atone for the widespread child sexual abuse within its ranks and its cover-up despite facing influential pockets of resistance, its key royal commission adviser argues.
The need for reform and change in the church is far from over despite the end of the five-year inquiry that exposed “a massive concealment exercise”, Truth Justice and Healing Council CEO Francis Sullivan says.
“Church leaders can apologise until they’re blue in the face but until they demonstrate by their actions that they sincerely want to atone for what’s happened, no one will listen to them,” Mr Sullivan told AAP.
“It will be on their heads if they don’t step up and demonstrate that they are going to take the church in a direction that resonates with what the community and the royal commission believes to be a sensible and prudent approach.”
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