BALLARAT (AUSTRALIA)
The Courier
August 21, 2018
By Leanne Younes
A Ballarat clergy abuse survivor agrees that Tuesday’s unprecedented letter of apology from Pope Francis is too little too late.
In a letter to the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics, Pope Francis said no effort must be spared to prevent child abuse and the possibility of the crimes being covered up.
Pope Francis has vowed there will be no more cover-ups of child sexual abuse in the Catholic Church but church abuse victims’ advocacy group Broken Rites president Chris MacIsaac described the letter as “all too little, too late”.
“Words are nothing without action,” Mr Sculley said. “The facts of the matter are that it changes nothing.”
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