AUSTRALIA
Canberra Times
September 7, 2013
Tom McIlroy
Reporter at The Canberra Times
The fallout from the royal commission on institutional child sexual abuse will shake Australian churches ”to their foundations”, the leader of Canberra’s Anglican community said on Friday.
Delivering his annual synod charge address to members of the church, Bishop Stuart Robinson said the diocese was not immune from the commission’s consideration of decades of clerical sexual abuse, and staff were examining records which dated back to the 1920s.
”I am currently expending around one-third of my energy on professional standards matters,” Bishop Robinson said.
”My expectation is that the findings will shake the churches to their foundations.”
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