SCOTLAND
Herald Scotland
Wednesday 5 June 2013
A retired Australian bishop has urged Roman Catholics around the world to sign an online petition to Pope Francis to call a new global council to take effective measures to end the sexual abuse of children in the Church.
Bishop Geoffrey Robinson, a former auxiliary bishop of Sydney who co-ordinated the Australian church’s response to the sexual abuse crisis, said only a council of the world’s bishops would have the power to make the changes needed.
The new organisation would be akin to the 1962-1965 Second Vatican Council, Bishop Robinson told a news conference in Sydney.
However, this council would focus only on solving the abuse issue, he added.
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