AUSTRALIA
Catholic Leader
MUSIC legend Bruce Springsteen will tour Australia early next year, playing to packed houses.
At the same time, the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse will be preparing for what it’s calling the “Catholic Church Final Hearing”.
It’s expected to last for four weeks, enabling the Commission to ask questions about “a number of factors … including canon law, mandatory celibacy and the selection, screening, training and ongoing support and supervision of working priests and religious”.
This won’t be an easy time for the Catholic Church in Australia.
Mainstream media will rightly devote plenty of time to the final hearing, again reporting on the many times the Church acted in an appalling way when young people were being abused.
It’s a brutal story and it can never be defended.
So, what’s the link to Bruce Springsteen?
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