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Royal Commission will spend the next two weeks examining the Catholic Church’s Towards Healing protocols and how they’ve worked. The public examination over the next two weeks will look at the cases of four Queensland residents who were abused by Catholic clergy in Brisbane, Lismore and two Marist schools in Queensland. Catholic Church’s truth justice and healing council has resolved to reform the process. The Royal Commission’s public inquiry of Towards Healing will continue throughout the life of the inquiry.

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TONY EASTLEY: It’s been one of the Catholic Church’s more controversial responses to the scourge of child sexual abuse, and now it’s about to undergo a forensic examination by the Royal Commission.

For the next fortnight the Royal Commission will publicly examine how four abuse victims were treated by the Catholic Church when they lodged a complaint through the church’s…