The abuse of 4500 innocent children by collective vile church leaders did not matter?

There is no forgiveness known to decent people.  What happened to “Suffer the Little Children?”   These Leaders knowingly covered up criminal abuse.  Starting with the evil and deceitful Cardinal George Pell, these Leaders ought to be thrown in a cell and left to rot!!!

The Archbishops should all be turned into stone as a reminder of their wickedness.  Without the RC the

truth would have remained buried under a pile of church rubble.  

It is not good enough to say "Yes we knew" and then spend decades in cover up mode.  All are culpable

and worthy of receiving extreme public contempt and a bitter need for punishment prevails.  

If there was only one child, there is no forgiveness - ever.  Trust has been Trashed.

Catholic leaders admit child sex abuse ‘was criminal negligence’

The Australian 12:00am February 24, 2017

Dan Box, Sam Buckingham-Jones

The nation’s most senior Catholic leaders yesterday sat together in the witness box of a royal commission and admitted their church was guilty of “criminal negligence” over the issue of child sex abuse.

The archbishops of Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth wore black as they ­appeared before a packed Sydney hearing room and full bench of commissioners at the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. They are the final witnesses to be called at what is the 16th and last of the commission’s public hearings into the Catholic Church over the past five years.

At the opening of the current hearing, the commission revealed at least 4445 children had alleged abuse in Catholic institutions over the past four decades. In many cases these crimes were covered up, not reported to police or the abuser was subsequently moved by others in the church, the commission has heard.

“It certainly is a catastrophic failure of leadership,” Perth Archbishop Timothy Costelloe said yesterday. The church’s ­response had been “hopelessly inadequate, scandalously ineffic­ient ... It’s just such a fundamental failure that I’m not sure what else I can say,” he said.

Sydney Archbishop Anthony Fisher told the commission: “It was a kind of criminal negligence to deal with some of the problems that were staring us in the face. The Catholic community as a whole must hang its head in shame ... and we have to hold everyone to account.”

Archbishop of Brisbane Mark Coleridge said the church experienced “a colossal failure of culture that led to a colossal failure of leadership”.