AUSTRALIA
ABC – Lateline

[with video]

Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Broadcast: 08/08/2013
Reporter: Tony Jones

The CEO of the Catholic Church’s Truth, Justice and Healing Council, Francis Sullivan discusses the role of the Catholic Church’s insurance company in how the church handled cases of sexual abuse by clergy.

Transcript

TONY JONES, PRESENTER: Joining us in the studio is the chief executive officer of the Church’s Truth, Justice and Healing Council, Francis Sullivan.

Thanks for being here.

FRANCIS SULLIVAN, CEO, TRUTH, JUSTICE & HEALING COUNCIL: Thank you for having me.

TONY JONES: Now you just heard Robert Grant at the end of that interview saying that these high-level committees, set up really to create Towards Healing, that he’d never heard people being concerned about the well-being of victims. They were concerned about Church liability and about priests who’d been accused. That’s a pretty shameful indictment of the process, isn’t…