Highly recommended: Kieran Tapsell's conversation with Noel Debien of
ABC Australia yesterday evening. Kieran Tapsell is an attorney and
author of the book Potiphar's Wife: The Vatican's Secret and Child Sexual Abuse (Adelaide:
ATF Press, 2014). In introducing Tapsell, Debien notes that the
testimony last week of Bishop Geoffrey Robinson before the Australian
Royal Commission about Sexual Abuse has gotten surprisingly little media
coverage.
I suspect this may be the case because, as I noted in my posting last Wednesday about Robinson's testimony, he was unsparing in his criticism of the silence of the powerful Pope John Paul II about the abuse crisis in the Catholic church, and he also stated bluntly that the popular Pope Francis has not provided real leadership for the church as it addresses this crisis.
http://en.paperblog.com/kieran-tapsell-on-bishop-geoffrey-robinson-s-testimony-before-australian-abuse-commission-vatican-s-belief-that-church-law-trumps-civil-law-is-big-obstacle-for-commission-1301318/
I suspect this may be the case because, as I noted in my posting last Wednesday about Robinson's testimony, he was unsparing in his criticism of the silence of the powerful Pope John Paul II about the abuse crisis in the Catholic church, and he also stated bluntly that the popular Pope Francis has not provided real leadership for the church as it addresses this crisis.
http://en.paperblog.com/kieran-tapsell-on-bishop-geoffrey-robinson-s-testimony-before-australian-abuse-commission-vatican-s-belief-that-church-law-trumps-civil-law-is-big-obstacle-for-commission-1301318/