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BY KERRY BREWSTER –
October 24, 2013
A senior lawyer has warned that the Catholic Church will not win back public trust and confidence until its current “tainted” leaders have gone.
Patrick Parkinson, who reviewed the church’s Towards Healing protocol for dealing with victims of sexual abuse, has previously described allegations of the church’s cover-up of sexual abuse as amounting to organised criminality.
In a speech on Thursday night, the University of Sydney lawyer, a non-Catholic, declared there were still some rotten apples among the church’s hierarchy.
“There are those still apparently who fail to understand their civic duty as citizens of this country to cooperate with the police,” he said.
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