The Catholic bishop of Parramatta has gone public for the first time about the sexual abuse he suffered at the hands of clergy.
Bishop Vincent Long Van Nguyen talked about the abuse at a royal commission hearing in Sydney and called on the church to consider removing priests’ honorifics and giving parishioners more power. “I was also a victim of sexual abuse by clergy when I first came to Australia, even though I was an adult,” the former refugee told the royal commission into institutional responses to child sexual abuse on Tuesday.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/feb/21/australian-bishop-says-he-suffered-sexual-abuse-at-hands-of-catholic-clergy
Bishop Vincent Long Van Nguyen talked about the abuse at a royal commission hearing in Sydney and called on the church to consider removing priests’ honorifics and giving parishioners more power. “I was also a victim of sexual abuse by clergy when I first came to Australia, even though I was an adult,” the former refugee told the royal commission into institutional responses to child sexual abuse on Tuesday.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/feb/21/australian-bishop-says-he-suffered-sexual-abuse-at-hands-of-catholic-clergy