9 September 2023

The Plenary: a time for the Australian Catholic hierarchy to publicly apologise

Recently there have been reports from Canada on demands for the Catholic Church to apologise for its actions in church run boarding schools. In Australia we have had details of the sex abuse scandals. But what we have not had from the Church, in Australia, is an apology for what its doctrinaire attitude to family planning and birth control meant for hundreds of Catholic families in the 1950s and 1960s.