AUSTRALIA
SBS
They are the next generation of Catholic priests who want to ensure the horrors of the past – highlighted by the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse – are not repeated.
By Greg Dyett
Source: SBS News 9 APR 2017
Two years ago, SBS World News spoke to a handful of young men as they started their journey to the priesthood as first year students at a seminary in Melbourne.
The rest of the training they receive – it’s a seven-year process – is likely to be influenced by the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, that is due to deliver its findings in December.
The priest in charge of Corpus Christi College in Melbourne, Father Denis Stanley, told SBS World News he has encouraged the trainee priests to take note of what has emerged at the commission.
“The work of the Royal Commission is now part of the context in which we live, it’s part of our time and place,” he said.
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