AUSTRALIA
The Australian
By Genevieve Gannon
From: AAP
December 12, 2012
A CATHOLIC advocacy group hopes the church’s decision to appoint lay people to lead its council to the child abuse royal commission indicates a willingness to achieve genuine reform.
Two bishops and a nun have already been nominated to the 10-person council but it will be led by members of the laity.
Melbourne Archbishop Denis Hart on Wednesday announced former NSW supreme court chief judge Barry O’Keefe and former Australian Medical Association secretary-general Francis Sullivan would respectively be chair and chief executive of the council.
Catholics for Renewal president Peter Johnstone said the church had so far failed to identify systematic institutional failures, but the appointment of people outside the church hierarchy was a good sign.
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