1 Feb 2022

Catholic Church reveals scale of abuse complaints

From Checkpoint, 5:26 pm on 1 February 2022

New figures show one in seven Catholic clergy who work for a bishop have had abuse complaints laid against them.

The Catholic Church has for the first time publicly released the figures, which show the scale of sexual and other abuse across the country since 1950.

The Royal Commission into Abuse says the numbers are 'startling', while a catholic cardinal describes them as 'horrifying'.

Phil Pennington reports.