Parishes take active steps to prevent child abuse

While the Australian Catholic Church says it is “working hard to prevent child abuse from happening again”, what does this mean?

One priest has adopted strategies to ensure his church is a safe place. These include, for example, ensuring young altar servers do not change into their robes without parental supervision.

“Now the door to the altar server room should be left open and we encourage altar server parents to enter with them,” he said. Read more

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