AUSTRALIA
Brisbane Times
April 26, 2013
Barney Zwartz, Noel Towell
The head of the Catholic Church watchdog on clerical abuse in Ireland is to advise the Australian church about how well its abuse protocol is working.
Ian Elliott will visit Australia later this year to talk about lessons from the Irish experience and to help the church review its Towards Healing system, a spokesman said.
The National Committee for Professional Standards executive officer, Father Tim Brennan, said there was no external monitoring of how Towards Healing dealt with victims, and no way for the church to prove its systems were working.
”How does it get a clean bill of health?” Father Brennan asked. ”At the moment, there’s no mechanism to establish who does things well. The Irish experience is a way to go that step further.”
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