Father Tom Doyle says tax concessions should be on table as church responds to royal commission

Be bold: Dominican priest Tom Doyle outside the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse in 2017 after giving evidence. He says government deference towards the Catholic church has to end because of the child sex scandal. THE Australian Government should ignore the church/state divide and put “massive pressure” on the Catholic Church to name child sexual abuse as a crime in church law, says the American Catholic cleric who first blew the whistle on the global abuse scandal in 1984. “The church gave up this privilege long ago when they started to enable sex abuse, lie about it to society and cover up for abusers,” said Dominican priest Tom Doyle after the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse’s final report in December recommended major changes, including to celibacy and the secrecy of the confessional.

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