Bishop Launches Petition for Global Catholic Abuse Council

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Source: NY Times

A retired Australian bishop urged Roman Catholics around the world on Tuesday to sign an online petition to Pope Francis to call a new global council to take effective measures to end the sexual abuse of children in the Church.

Bishop Geoffrey Robinson, a former auxiliary bishop of Sydney who coordinated the Australian church's response to the sexual abuse crisis, said only a council of the world's bishops would have the power to make the changes he said were needed.

The new organization would be akin to the 1962-1965 Second Vatican Council, Robinson told a news conference in Sydney, referring to the historic body that transformed the Catholic Church with modernizing reforms.

But this council would focus only on solving the abuse issue, he added.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2013/06/04/world/asia/04reuters-vatican-abuse-australia.html?hp&_r=0

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1. Here's another suggestion: CALL THE COPS when a priest rapes a kid.

Just a thought...