On 22 April 2013, Francis Sullivan, the CEO of the Truth, Justice and
Healing Council (“TJHC”) that represents the Australian Catholic Church
at the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual
Abuse, said: “The Australian community has been kept in the dark for too
long.” Indeed it has, and since the setting up of the Royal Commission,
the Australian Church has been open and frank about some its own
failures.
But on one critical issue, it has failed to be frank, and has continued the policy set by Pope Benedict XVI in his 2010 pastoral letter to the people of Ireland, of blaming negligent and misguided bishops for the cover up while ignoring the role of the Vatican and canon law on their behaviour.
http://johnmenadue.com/blog/?p=4612
But on one critical issue, it has failed to be frank, and has continued the policy set by Pope Benedict XVI in his 2010 pastoral letter to the people of Ireland, of blaming negligent and misguided bishops for the cover up while ignoring the role of the Vatican and canon law on their behaviour.
http://johnmenadue.com/blog/?p=4612