Church sex abuse inquiry 'not needed' [View All]

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An inquiry into suicides among victims of sexual abuse by Catholic priests and brothers in Victoria would achieve little, a Catholic bishop says.

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"I think we've learnt a lot of things about what is appropriate behaviour and what's not appropriate behaviour," Bishop Connors said.

"I think people are very well informed nowadays as to what's inappropriate approaches from a male."

While conceding the abuse of children was wrong, he said that in the past it had not always been clear to everyone what was appropriate and inappropriate behaviour.

Source: Herald Sun (Australia)

I dunno, I'm going to guess that for a pretty significant majority of the population, it was always pretty clear that sexually abusing children was inappropriate. Going out on a limb here, of course.