AUSTRALIA
Daily Examiner
APN Newsdesk 3rd Oct 2013
THE Catholic Church has admitted it betrayed its own people and the expectations of the wider community in its handling of sex abuse allegations.
But despite the admission, contained in a submission to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, the church’s Truth, Justice and Healing Council has made no significant changes to internal processes designed to bring closure to victims.
The 200-page submission outlines the church’s Towards Healing process, which was created in 1996 to help victims of abuse by Catholic priests.
The program will be the subject of a fortnight of intense scrutiny by the commission, starting on December 9 this year.
While the council has admitted grave faults across its investigation and response to allegations of child sexual abuse, the submission says only it is open to suggestions for improvements from the commission.
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