AUSTRALIA
The Tablet (UK)
13 November 2014 by Abigail Frymann Rouch, Mark Brolly
Dominican bioethicist Anthony Fisher, who was installed as Archbishop of Sydney on Wednesday, vowed to improve the Church’s record on safeguarding and apologised for sexual abuse committed by clergy.
Giving the homily during his installation Mass he told a packed St Mary’s Cathedral he spoke of survivors’ “harrowing” experiences, “the shameful deeds of some clergy and serious failures of some leaders to respond”.
The 54-year-old prelate said he prayed the Church would “emerge from this period of public scrutiny humbler, more compassionate and spiritually regenerated” and urged disillusioned Catholics to return and “help us be a better Church”.
Archbishop Fisher’s Installation Mass, SydneyThe Catholic Church in Australia has been participating with a Royal Commission into institutional child sexual abuse, and there have also been state-level inquiries into historic instances of abuse by religious organisations.
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