AUSTRALIA
The Courier
February 20 2019
ON the eve of the third anniversary of his trip to Rome to hear evidence on child abuse to the Royal Commission, Ballarat victims’ advocate Andrew Collins calls on the world summit to affect real change.
“But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.” Matthew 18:6 (KJV)
“But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.
” Matthew 18:6 (KJV) This week the most powerful of the world’s Catholic leaders will be in Rome for a summit on the problem of child sexual abuse in the church.
In Australia thanks to the recent Royal Commission into Institutional Responses into Childhood Sexual Abuse, we are well aware of the issue.
What many may not know is that it is not isolated to a few countries, but it is a worldwide pandemic. The issue is not new.
Throughout the history of the Church there have been allegations and rules made about the sexual abuse of children. Currently, this is covered under the church’s laws, or Canon Law.
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