One of the world's leading authorities on child sex abuse in the Church says it will be a colossal waste of people's money if the government excludes churches from the Royal Commission into abuse in state care.
However, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said the inquiry would focus on those in state care because that's where the government has a duty of responsibility.
US Catholic cleric Father Tom Doyle first blew the whistle on the global scandal of clerical abuse in 1984, and has given expert evidence since, including at Australia's Royal Commission.
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