AUSTRALIA
Border Mail
One year on from a delegation of Ballarat abuse victims to Rome, a senior catholic official has expressed his frustration at the stalls to reform being instigated in the Vatican.
Truth Justice and Healing Council CEO Francis Sullivan said he feared the Pope may be retreating from his crackdown on pedophile priests as Vatican bureaucrats do all they can to undermine reform efforts,
The Catholic Church in Australia could end up as a “marginalised rump” unless there is real change to an institutional culture hell-bent on self-protection and self-preservation, Mr Sullivan said.
Last March a group of Ballarat sexual abuse victims travelled to Rome to hear Cardinal George Pell’s evidence to the Royal Commission.
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