AUSTRALIA
Catholic Leader
Published: 14 July 2013
By: Paul Dobbyn
AUSTRALIAN Catholic lay people in some parishes are already meeting to discuss issues surrounding the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, including how the Church has handled the issue.
Truth, Justice and Healing Council chief executive officer Francis Sullivan (pictured) said priests and clergy needed to consider encouraging such initiatives.
He met with more than 30 priests responsible for the pastoral care and support of clergy to discuss the role of the council as it prepares for the September start of public hearings at the Royal Commission.
At the recent National Conference of Directors of Clergy Life and Ministry in Sydney’s north-west, Mr Sullivan said priests and clergy needed to help parishioners understand what the Catholic Church had done and was doing to protect children.
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