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Rebekah Ison – AAP on March 20, 2017
The Anglican Church’s failure to properly select and train its aspiring priests led to child abusers in its ranks, the royal commission has heard.
Chair Peter McClellan asked four senior Anglicans if the process for picking and guiding student clergy had meant “people ended up in the church who were capable of committing these terrible crimes”.
The four panellists agreed, with the administrator of the Anglican Diocese, Bishop Tim Harris, saying the church had been in a position of great privilege and autonomy.
“I would hope, going into the 21st century, that there is a much greater awareness that the church is rightly more accountable,” he told the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse on Monday.
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