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… the 1950s and 1960s, Glyn inherited his parents’ joy in the Catholic faith and decided at age 10 that he wanted to … encountered Father Mitchell. Mitchell was a curate at the church where Glyn served as an altar boy. He also dropped … divorce Glyn felt strong enough to seek redress from the Catholic Church through its Towards Healing process. He met …

… that Chris and Leslie attend a camping trip with a Catholic priest, Father Young, and some other boys. During … Chris stayed over at his residence. Leslie was a ‘staunch Catholic’, and was overwhelmed by Young’s helpfulness and the kindness of the Church. As a single parent, Leslie was unable to support …

… Austin's story Austin was sent to a Catholic boarding school in the late 1950s, when he was 13 … 14 Austin was experimenting with masturbation. Troubled by ‘Catholic guilt’, he met with Father Moore in a classroom one … to seek other remedies and he signed up for the Catholic Church’s Towards Healing process. Austin was unimpressed …

… 1960s, was never suspected of child abuse at the time. Her Catholic family ‘lived and breathed the Church’, and her mother would invite nuns and priests around … selected her and a handful of other girls from her Catholic primary school in suburban Newcastle – and sexually …

… Benito's story Benito was brought up in a strict Roman Catholic family and attended a Catholic school in Tasmania in the 1950s. When he was about … still takes. Benito went through Towards Healing with the Church and feels extremely disappointed with the outcome, …

… experiences. Towards Healing was adopted by the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference and Catholic Religious Australia in 1996 to respond to complaints of abuse against personnel of the Catholic Church in Australia. Royal Commission Chief Executive …

… grew up in western Sydney in a large, ‘highly committed Catholic family. My father was the chairman of the parish council and my mother was in all of the Catholic organisations that women, mothers, were … those days. So very devout family totally committed to the Church, I would say’. As a young Catholic in the mid-1960s, …

… Hedda’s story Hedda was one of the youngest children in her Catholic family. In the 1970s, she attended a Catholic high school north of Sydney run by the Sisters of the Good Samaritan, and went to church every Sunday with the whole family which ‘was like an …

… with his mother from Eastern Europe, Goran was sent to a Catholic residential care facility in Queensland. He was … to remove him before a year was up, they moved and the church recommended a school. ‘I didn’t really like it out … It’s made him depressed, traumatised and enraged that the Catholic Church cannot be held accountable for the actions …

… in a small rural community in Victoria, where there was a Catholic church, but no full-time priest. On Sundays one of the … [sent] somewhere else.’ Both Edward and Flo would like the Catholic Church to acknowledge the abuse that occurred. Flo …