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Australian bishop launches online petition for global Catholic council on sexual abuse

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(Pope Francis looks on at the end of a mass marking the 50th anniversary of the death of Pope John XXIII, who called the Second Vatican Council, at the Vatican June 3, 2013. REUTERS/Tony Gentile )

A retired Australian bishop urged Roman Catholics around the world on Tuesday to sign an online petition to Pope Francis to call a new global council to take effective measures to end the sexual abuse of children in the Church.
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Jun 4, 2013

Bishop launches petition for global Catholic abuse council

June 4 (Reuters) – A retired Australian bishop urged Roman
Catholics around the world on Tuesday to sign an online petition
to Pope Francis to call a new global council to take effective
measures to end the sexual abuse of children in the Church.

Bishop Geoffrey Robinson, a former auxiliary bishop of
Sydney who coordinated the Australian church’s response to the
sexual abuse crisis, said only a council of the world’s bishops
would have the power to make the changes he said were needed.
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      "As Religion Editor, my job is to coordinate religion news coverage with our bureaus around the world. Based in Paris, I also run our FaithWorld blog and report mostly about Christianity and Islam in Europe and related moral issues such as bioethics. Since joining Reuters in 1977 in London, I've been a correspondent, bureau chief and editor in Vienna, Geneva, Islamabad, Bangkok, Hong Kong, Bonn and Paris. My book Unchained Eagle: Germany after the Wall was published in 2000. In 2006, I received the European Religion Writer of the Year award."
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