Wellington priests commit to prayer, fasting - Monsignor Gerry Burns

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Channel: RNZ · 2018 · News & Politics

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Priests in the Wellington region have committed to prayer and fasting today as a way of acknowledging sexual abuse committed by clergy against children.

It follows a letter from Pope Francis in August, in which he asked all Catholics to make amends, as Monsignor Gerry Burns, Vicar-General of the Wellington Archdiocese explains.

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