AUSTRALIA
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AAP
Australia’s child abuse royal commission should not expect to change the Catholic Church with some “magic bullet”, priests have warned.
The commission needs to be realistic that changing the Catholic Church as a whole will not happen, Diocese of Broken Bay vicar general Dr David Ranson said.
“It’s not going to change the theology of the church. It’s not going to change the structure of the universal church. It’s beyond the ambit of the royal commission to do that.”
The commission is looking at issues such as the church’s structure and governance, canon law, and celibacy as it examines why widespread abuse occurred over decades in Catholic institutions.
Dr Ranson said the Catholic Church was a community of communities, each of which had to examine why abuse occurred in their particular community.
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