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Why Won’t George Pell Speak? (Or: I Hear They Need A Missionary In Antarctica)
Australia’s only Catholic Cardinal, George Pell has become something of a recluse, especially when it comes to Royal Commissions on his priests’ child sexual abuse, and his bishops’ covering-up of them. He has spent much of the year out of … Continue reading
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Tagged Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, Cardinal George Pell, Domus Australia, footsteps of Saint Paul, Lewin Blazevich, Lewis Blayse, Melbourne Response, Pope Francis, royal commission, Towards Healing, Vatican child sexual abuse
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Indigenous Leaders Criticize Commission: (Or: It’s Hard To Be Heard Sometimes)
Image: Sam Watson (Source: http://www.greenleft.org.au) The web-site of the Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse states that “If you are Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander and have been sexually abused as a child in an Australian … Continue reading
Who Knew What When? (Or: Your Conscience Is Showing)
Image: Lismore Deacon Christopher Wallace (Image source: http://www.stcarthages.org.au/parish-clergy.html) The Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse has completed its first week of a hearing into the controversial “Towards Healing” process, used by the Catholic Church to deal … Continue reading
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Tagged Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, Catholic Church child abuse, Catholic Church Insurance, Christopher Wallace, Father Brown, Jennifer Ingham, Joan Isaacs, Lewin Blazevich, Lewis Blayse, Lismore, Peter Kelso, royal commission, Towards Healing
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More “Towards Healing” Officials (Or: Jesus Had No Lawyer)
Image: James Spence (Source: News Ltd.) The Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse is continuing its hearings, into the discredited “Towards Healing” process – the Catholic Church’s mechanism for dealing with claims of abuse throughout Australia … Continue reading
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Tagged Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, Bernadette Rogers, Bishop Gerry, Catholic Church Insurance, confidentiality clauses, James Spence, Lewin Blazevich, Lewis Blayse, Mark Coleridge, royal commission, Towards Healing
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“No Show” Pell (Or: Don’t Admit Anything)
Image: Adrian Farrelly (right) outside the enquiry (Source: The Guardian – Photograph: Dan Himbrechts/AAP) The Catholic Church’s program for dealing with claims of child sexual abuse, “Towards Healing”, continued to be the focus of the fourth hearings of the Australian … Continue reading
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Tagged Adrian Farrelly, Archbishop Coleridge, Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, Catholic Church Insurance, Frank Derriman, George Pell, Joan Isaacs, Lewin Blazevich, Lewis Blayse, Peter Gray, Peter McClellan, royal commission, Towards Healing
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