AUSTRALIA
Telegraph
FRANCIS SULLIVAN THE DAILY TELEGRAPH OCTOBER 03, 2013
THE Daily Telegraph recently reported the case of a Catholic brother jailed for at least three and half years for abusing children at a western Sydney school.
It was the sort of report that is often seen in the pages of most of our newspapers and across other media and which reflects an appalling history of sexual abuse of children within the Catholic Church.
The victims of this type of abuse go through extreme damage and suffering and the impact it can have on their lives is profound.
It is this damage and suffering that is at the centre of the Catholic Church’s Towards Healing victims’ reparation protocol.
For the better part of 20 years the Catholic Church in Australia has used Toward Healing to offer victims of sex abuse by catholic priests, brothers, teachers and others church workers a way to tell their story and to receive pastoral care and reparation.
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