Adelaide priest Fr James McEvoy will join a high-powered gathering of theologians and ethicists from around the world for a three-day workshop on the clerical sex abuse crisis at the Gregorian University in Rome next month.
Children will be encouraged to have a say and write down their thoughts during National Child Protection Week in September.
For most people working or volunteering in the Archdiocese of Adelaide, their only real contact with the Child Protection Unit is through the mandatory reporting training sessions that are run on a regular basis.
The Catholic Church is developing new national policy guidelines to strengthen and standardise Church authorities’ responses to historical and contemporary concerns and allegations of abuse of children and vulnerable adults.