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
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