AUSTRALIA
Catholic Leader
Published: 25 November 2012
Archbishop Mark Coleridge has written a letter to the clergy of the Archdiocese of Brisbane in the wake of the declaration of a Royal Commission into abuse
In the lead-up to the announcement of the Royal Commission and now in its aftermath, Catholic clergy have again been humiliated in a way that spares none of us.
This seems to have gone on for years, and it is hard to gauge accurately the toll it has taken on the ordained.
I suspect it is more severe than we are usually prepared to acknowledge.
In my nearly forty years as a priest, nothing approaches the sexual abuse crisis as a blow to clergy morale.
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