THE Catholic Church’s chances of recovering from the “trashing” of
its standing as a moral leader are grim while the culture that allowed
child sexual abuse remains, said a Sydney University professor of law on
the eve of a final royal commission hearing into the church.
The child sexual abuse crisis was “never just because of a few bad apple” priests, said Professor Patrick Parkinson in a submission to a Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse hearing from Monday, that is expected to challenge the Vatican, canon law and Pope Francis about the church’s need to change.
http://www.theherald.com.au/story/4445757/church-prospects-grim-while-abuse-culture-remains/
The child sexual abuse crisis was “never just because of a few bad apple” priests, said Professor Patrick Parkinson in a submission to a Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse hearing from Monday, that is expected to challenge the Vatican, canon law and Pope Francis about the church’s need to change.
http://www.theherald.com.au/story/4445757/church-prospects-grim-while-abuse-culture-remains/