Church 'Sorry for Sex Abuse'

By Tony Grew
The Sunday Times
July 7, 2013

http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/news/uk_news/Society/article1284752.ece?CMP=OTH-gnws-standard-2013_07_07

The Archbishop of Canterbury wants a public apology

THE Church of England will today be urged to apologise to children sexually abused by its clergy.

The Archbishops of Canterbury and York will ask the church’s governing body, the General Synod, to back a proposal for a public apology at its meeting in York.

A document drafted by the church’s two most senior clerics calls on the church to “identify with the apology that we wish to offer unreservedly for the failure of the Church of England’s systems to protect children, young people and adults from physical and sexual abuse inflicted by its clergy and others”.

It also apologises for “the failure to listen properly to those so abused”.