The Truth, Justice and Healing Council was established by the

Australian Catholic Bishops Conference The Australian Catholic Bishops’ Conference (ACBC) is the national episcopal conference of the Catholic bishops of Australia and is the instrumentality used by the Australian Catholic bishops to act nationally and address issues of national s ...

as a national co-ordinating body to oversee the church's engagement with the 2015-17

Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse was a royal commission announced in November 2012 and established in 2013 by the Government of Australia, Australian government pursuant to the Royal Commissions Act 1902 t ...

and the pastoral and other ramifications that arose from the sexual abuse which it was called to investigate.

Personnel

The council was chaired by

the Honourable ''The Honourable'' (British English) or ''The Honorable'' (American English; see spelling differences) (abbreviation: ''Hon.'', ''Hon'ble'', or variations) is an honorific style that is used as a prefix before the names or titles of certain ...

Barry O'Keefe Barry Stanley John O’Keefe , (20 May 1933 24 April 2014) was an Australian judge and lawyer who served as a justice of the Supreme Court of New South Wales from 1993 to 2004 and the Commissioner of the Independent Commission Against Corrupti ...

until his 2014 death. He was succeeded by the Honourable Neville Owen, a former judge, barrister and solicitor, and Francis J. Sullivan was appointed as CEO.Bianca Hall and Judith Ireland, "Sex Abuse Victims May Get Payouts", ''Sydney Morning Herald'' 12 January 2013, p. 1.

References

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