Global Post: Australia’s Roman Catholic Church has admitted to over 600 cases of sexual abuse dating back as early as the 1930s.
The Catholic Church revealed that they had record of at least 620 children being abused in a submitted report at a parliamentary hearing in Victoria on Friday, Agence France Presse reported.
“It is shameful and shocking that this abuse, with its dramatic impact on those who were abused and their families, was committed by Catholic priests, religious and church workers,” Melbourne Archbishop Denis Hart said in a statement.
The inquiry into the church’s activity was sparked after 40 suicides occurred in the state of Victoria, the Telegraph reported.
Judy Courtin, who is researching abuse in the Catholic Church, told the Telegraph that it often takes victims decades to confess to having been abused, and that she is not surprised it took a government investigation to force the Church to release its statistics.
The Church said it was shamed by its slow reaction to the abuse allegations.
Categories: Church, Faith, Human Rights
There are no sufficient discussions to connect the Catholic Church’s sexual abuse with its dogma of celibacy. This should be highlighted. Islam teaches that being married ‘is the natural state of all humans’ (men and women). How logical and beautiful is this teaching. Allah created us all and He knows best what is good for us.