AUSTRALIA
Gympie Times
Daniel Burdon | 26th Mar 2016
POPE Francis has been urged to ask for the resignation of all Catholic bishops who have failed to properly address child sexual abuse cases.
Australian Roman Catholic Bishop Geoffrey Robinson made the call yesterday in an effort to restore “trust and credibility” in the Church.
Bishop Robinson told ABC Radio National every bishop who was responsible for the abuse of a child “because he did not do what he should have done” should be asked to resign.
If Pope Francis was to act on Bishop Robinson’s urging, hundreds of bishops worldwide could resign.
Bishop Robinson said the church had lost “almost all its credibility” and had to be seen to be confronting the problem.
He also called for more women to be allowed involvement in the Church at senior levels and an end to the Catholic rule of mandatory celibacy for priests.
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