Pastoral Letter on Occasion of the Prime Minister’s Apology to Victims and Survivors of Abuse in Care
Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
Earlier this week, we bishops gathered together and listened as the Prime Minister apologised to those who suffered abuse in state and faith-based care. It was an important moment in our nation’s history.
Many of you have told us of the horror, grief and outrage you felt as you read the Royal Commission’s report and survivors’ accounts of abuse and the scale of that abuse. The sins and the crimes of our people – priests, religious and lay – working in Catholic settings fill us all with shame.
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