AUSTRALIA
Lakes Mail
By David Stewart
March 3, 2016
THE Catholic Bishop for the local region has called for a national redress scheme and uniform child protection standards in the wake of evidence heard at the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.
Bishop Bill Wright heads the diocese of Maitland-Newcastle, which includes the parishes of Morisset, Toronto, and Booragul.
Bishop Wright said evidence provided by Cardinal George Pell at the Royal Commission had “helped to complete the disturbing picture of how badly the church performed when dealing with reports of child sexual abuse” at the time.
“Anyone who is a survivor of abuse or has lived their life in the Catholic Church will be finding it difficult to hear the manifold failings of the church to protect children, and this is especially true for those within our local community with the sad history of abuse in our region,” he said.
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