Why? Because it was a way to do as they liked to innocent children... Ann
But times and the church have changed, the director of the church's Professional Standards Office for NSW/ACT told the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse on Wednesday.
http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2014/01/22/church-quandary-over-sex-abuse
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An inquiry has heard how the Catholic Church saw acts of sex abuse as moral failings, not criminal offences. A cup of tea and a lie-down was once the Catholic Church's attitude towards rehabilitation of victims of abuse.But times and the church have changed, the director of the church's Professional Standards Office for NSW/ACT told the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse on Wednesday.
http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2014/01/22/church-quandary-over-sex-abuse