The Catholic Church's child sexual abuse tragedy revealed in groundbreaking Australian five-year study

By Joanne McCarthy
Updated September 13 2017 - 2:12pm, first published 2:00pm
A groundbreaking Australian study describes child sexual abuse in the Catholic Church as a global tragedy

MANDATORY celibacy, the denigration of women and the Catholic Church’s “deeply homophobic environment” are key factors in the church’s global child sexual abuse tragedy, a ground-breaking Australian research study by two former Catholic priests has found.

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