Pope Francis's commission members say the church is 'struggling' on child safety responsibilities

By Joanne McCarthy
February 25 2017 - 12:00pm
Struggling: The Vatican. Two members of Pope Francis's commission on child protection have told a royal commission hearing that the church is "struggling to come to terms with the safety of children and its responsibilities in that area".
Struggling: The Vatican. Two members of Pope Francis's commission on child protection have told a royal commission hearing that the church is "struggling to come to terms with the safety of children and its responsibilities in that area".

THE Catholic Church is a world organisation “struggling to come to terms with the safety of children and its responsibilities in that area”, two members of Pope Francis’s child protection commission told the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.

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