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The Catholic church rethinks seminary training after its child abuse scandal

The Catholic church rethinks seminary training after its child abuse scandal

Wednesday, 25 September 2019

Source: The Age

Australia’s Catholic Church is considering scrapping the centuries-old system of training priests in seminaries, which helped create some of the country’s worst paedophiles.

Two years after a Royal Commission exposed the scale of child abuse in the church, Catholic leaders are already quietly reshaping the way clergy are appointed, with new screening and monitoring protocols for seminary candidates and a revamped “national program of priestly formation” being developed.

Read the full article in The Age.