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Catholic leaders including priests, brothers and nuns should have to be licensed or regulated to practise, a royal commission has heard.
Franciscan Friar Dr David Leary said there were very few professions that did not have mandated supervision and that the Church had to “bite the bullet” and realise it was effectively an employer.
“I think that’s the way we have to move, and I think it’s inevitable that people who practise will be licensed or regulated in some way,” he said at the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse in Sydney on Wednesday.
“Services benefit from a wide range and comprehensive sense of being held both accountable (and) supported… and at the end of the day, that’s for the benefit of people who are most vulnerable.”
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