Marilyn Hatton & Moira Coombs “The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse Report and its recommendations are essential for the care and protection of children and care of victims and their families. They are also important steps in preventing the perpetuation of the destructive clerical culture that produced the horrifying sexual abuse […]
The Recommendations for the Catholic Church from the Royal Commission are published here in full.
Eric Hodgens Australia’s bishops urgently need a visionary, charismatic leader to reclaim public credibility for the church argues Eric Hodgens, Melbourne priest.
Des Connolly is a parishioner of St Patricks Church Sutherland and a member of the Parish Spirituality Group. Before retirement he was principal at St Catherine Laboure Primary School, Gymea and then at Star of the Sea Primary School, Miranda.
John Hannon is the Catholic Parish Priest at St Therese Parish, Essendon, Victoria. This article is an extract from a homily on the Third Sunday of Advent looking at the failures around child sexual abuse and how we must address them differently.
