AUSTRALIA
Sydney Morning Herald
Christopher Knaus
The Catholic archbishop for Canberra says he regrets his decision not to attend a healing ceremony for Marist abuse victims, asking “sincerely for forgiveness from those whom I have offended”.
Archbishop Christopher Prowse was invited to Marist’s healing ceremony on Thursday night, but declined to attend.
A spokeswoman said on Friday that the Catholic church’s leader in Canberra and Goulburn had viewed it as a “Marist-specific” event, and that he’d wanted to wait for the royal commission to end so the archdiocese could hold its own.
The decision angered abuse survivors, who viewed his absence as a continuing sign of a flawed attitude on the abuse crisis from the Catholic Church.
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