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Flat White

Mea culpa: Abuse angst grips churches

15 December 2017

5:09 PM

15 December 2017

5:09 PM

All hell has broken loose on Australian churches now the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse has delivered its final report and recommendations to the Governor General.

There is nothing in the Final Report about Islam’s predilection to inflict female genital mutilation on its children but the Roman Catholics and the Anglicans have plenty to fear from the Royal Commission’s 189 new recommendations – many of which are aimed at making institutions (other than Islam) safer for children.

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