Royal Commission response is “… a plan of action.”
Today, the Presidents of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference and Catholic Religious Australia have said that they accept 98% of the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. Furthermore, they have made a commitment that the Church’s shameful history of allowing the most vulnerable to be abused will never be repeated.
Archbishop Mark Coleridge and Sr Monica Cavanagh RSJ made these statements at a media conference on Friday 31st August 2018.
Their statements are based on the 57-page response of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference/Catholic Religious Australia to the Royal Commission’s recommendations ACBC_CRA_Response_to_the_Royal_Commission
They also issued a one-page media release The_Catholic_Church_has_learned_is_changing_and_will_keep_changing
In the media release, Archbishop Coleridge said the Catholic Church’s response to the Royal Commission’s recommendations is
“a plan of action; it is our pledge to the Australian people; it is our promise of transparency and accountability”.
The four volumes of the Truth, Justice and Healing Council’s final report, which was established by the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference and Catholic Religious Australia, are available here:
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