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The internal process used by the Catholic Church to compensate victims of child sexual abuse is under the microscope at a national inquiry this week.
The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse starts public hearings into the Church’s Towards Healing process in Sydney on Monday.
It will be the fourth case study by the commission and the first of a number of public hearings which will examine the application of Towards Healing.
Towards Healing was established by the Catholic Church in 1996 and was seen as a watershed moment in the Church’s approach to dealing with child sexual abuse within the institution.
It has been reviewed and reformed twice since then.
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