On Monday the royal commission into institutional responses to child sexual abuse released damning statistics on the scale of the crisis within the Catholic Church. In total, between 1980 and 2015, 4,444 people alleged incidents of child sexual abuse relating to 93 Catholic Church authorities. The royal commission said 37% of all private sessions it held with survivors from all institutions related to abuse in the Catholic Church. How long can the cognitive dissonance between my faith and the Catholic church last? | Kristina Keneally Read moreThe royal commission is now in its final stage of examining abuse by Catholic clergy and the responses of various Catholic authorities.

Source: The Guardian February 06, 2017 00:17 UTC