AUSTRALIA
The Advertiser
Megan Neil, Australian Associated Press
February 12, 2017
The Catholic Church has not done enough to ensure the increasing number of overseas priests coming to Australia will not present a risk to children, the child sex abuse royal commission has heard.
Commissioner Robert Fitzgerald said the Catholic Church in some countries was in denial about the problem of child sexual abuse by priests and other religious.
“It’s not helpful for the church in many countries to deny or to assert that the child sexual abuse issues are that of the white western world or some European countries,” Mr Fitzgerald said on Monday.
“Isn’t that a fundamental problem in the church itself, that whilst there’s been an acknowledgement that in many countries such as America, Australia and Ireland and some of the Europeans, the church is largely in denial in many of the countries from which these priests, nuns and brothers are coming?”
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