AUSTRALIA
Australian Times (UK)
A RETIRED Sydney bishop says the federal government’s royal commission into child sex abuse will not eradicate abuse from the Catholic Church.
Bishop Geoffrey Robinson, who designed Australia’s Catholic clergy sex abuse response, wants a “people-powered revolution” to force the Vatican to make the changes needed to banish sexual abuse.
He says the Australian royal commission is limited because it will not have the power to fully eradicate the causes of abuse in the church.
“It’s really the church itself that needs to take a hard look at itself and see what we could find there in the way of causes and the systemic factors which may have contributed to the abuse,” he said.
On Tuesday, Bishop Robinson launched his new book, For Christ’s Sake, End Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church, in Sydney, with the backing of former NSW premier and Catholic Kristina Keneally.
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