Sex abuse prevention - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Mon, 17 Jul 2017 09:30:48 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Sex abuse prevention - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Parishes take active steps to prevent child abuse https://cathnews.co.nz/2017/07/17/parishes-prevent-child-sex-abuse/ Mon, 17 Jul 2017 07:55:30 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=96696 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 Read more

Parishes take active steps to prevent child abuse... Read more]]> 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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