Who Leaked Report Motive?
Title: Australia’s senior cleric says report calling for Church governance by lay women will be amended
Author: Paul Smeaton
Publisher: Life Site
Date: 18JUN2020
AUSTRALIA, June 18, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – Australia’s senior Catholic cleric has said that a recently released report commissioned by the Australian Catholic Bishops’ Conference (ACBC) which calls for radical changes to Church governanceis only an “interim version” and that it will be amended before a final report is published.
“The Light from the Southern Cross: Promoting Co-Responsible Governance in the Catholic Church in Australia,” a 208-page review of the governance of the Church in Australia, recommends significant increases in the influence of laity, especially women, while criticizing the Church’s male-only priesthood.
The review was commissioned in response to a recommendation from a five-year government inquiry into institutional child sexual abuse in all areas of Australian society and published earlier this month in La Croix International.
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