AUSTRALIA
Catholic Leader
TOOWOOMBA Bishop Robert McGuckin has returned from Monaco after representing Federation of Catholic Bishops’ Conferences of Oceania at an international conference.
Bishop McGuckin spoke at the Council of the Conferences of the European Bishops.
“Unlike our plenary assemblies, on the whole it was mainly the presidents of European bishops’ conferences that are involved in the plenaries,” Bishop McGuckin wrote in address to the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference. …
“The issue of sexual abuse by clergy and religious has been highlighted in Australia with the present Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse,” he wrote.
“This has not only done great damage to the lives of the many victims, but calls for positive steps to put our house in order. This is happening but great damage has been done.”
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