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21 February 2017

Hobart archbishop says scale of abuse by Catholic clergy 'difficult' to understand

The archbishop of Hobart said he still struggles to understand why Catholic clergy abused children on such a massive scale, and blamed the church’s response on an ignorance of “the seriousness of child sexual abuse”.
The royal commission into institutional responses to child sexual abuse on Tuesday heard evidence from a panel of archbishops and bishops, largely from Australia’s smaller Catholic dioceses.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/feb/21/hobart-archbishop-says-scale-of-abuse-by-catholic-clergy-difficult-to-understand