AUSTRALIA
Herald Sun
EDITOR ON DUTY: Carleen Frost
SOME of the most senior members of the Catholic Church in Australia are preparing to give evidence at the Royal Commission into child sex abuse today.
Over the next month a total of 73 witnesses – including several archbishops, bishops, school principals, lawyers and parish priests – will address the factors that may have contributed to the occurance of child sex abuse and discuss the church’s response.
Today’s session is expected to hear from Diocese of Broken Bay Vicar General David Ranson, Aquinas Academy director Michael Whelan and American canon lawyer Father Thomas P Doyle.
Father Doyle is an expert consultant in areas of sexual abuse by clergy and religious leaders.
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