Dying of cancer, Bishop Emeritus Geoffrey Robinson appeared Aug. 24
before the Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to
Child Sexual Abuse to testify to the prevalence of child sexual abuse in
the church.
He painted a sad picture of a brave and lonely Sisyphus with his band of bishops in tow, pushing a boulder with a reasoned response to the crisis up the Vatican Hill, only to have it pushed back by popes and cardinals who had no idea about the issue and a blindness about the incapacity of canon law to deal with it.
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He painted a sad picture of a brave and lonely Sisyphus with his band of bishops in tow, pushing a boulder with a reasoned response to the crisis up the Vatican Hill, only to have it pushed back by popes and cardinals who had no idea about the issue and a blindness about the incapacity of canon law to deal with it.
http://ncronline.org/news/accountability/australian-bishop-testifies-prevalence-child-sex-abuse-church