The Catholic Church has described its history regarding child abuse in Australia as “shameful, corrosive and complicit”. The church says it now expects its liability exposure to be potentially $1 billion on top of payments already made.
Catholic spokesman Francis Sullivan said the church’s history was “littered with examples of cover-ups and crimes and of church leaders failing in one of the very basic tenets of their calling”. Mr Sullivan is leading the church’s support for a national redress scheme to compensate victims of abuse. The scheme has been recommended by the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/in-depth/catholic-church-confesses-tonbspa-shameful-corrosive-history/story-fngburq5-1227577664879?sv=347acd4a4e43a587f6ebe2c473237bee
Catholic spokesman Francis Sullivan said the church’s history was “littered with examples of cover-ups and crimes and of church leaders failing in one of the very basic tenets of their calling”. Mr Sullivan is leading the church’s support for a national redress scheme to compensate victims of abuse. The scheme has been recommended by the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/in-depth/catholic-church-confesses-tonbspa-shameful-corrosive-history/story-fngburq5-1227577664879?sv=347acd4a4e43a587f6ebe2c473237bee