The Lacuna Project

lacuna (n.) a gap in a record where something should be

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Religious body

Catholic Church authorities in Australia

Findings that rest on exhibits naming this entity

  • REL-3.4: Australia's Royal Commission recorded 4,444 claimants in 4,756 claims against Catholic Church authorities between 1980 and 2015, with 1,880 known alleged perpetrators and $268.0 million paid on 3,057 claims. It found numerous cases in which senior Catholic officials knew of allegations and failed to take effective action, and that complaints were not reported to police or other civil authorities.

Exhibits naming this entity

  • Exhibit 480 15 December 2017. Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse (Australia): Final Report, Volume 16, Religious institutions, Book 1