title: Truth, Justice and Healing Council
text: # Truth, Justice and Healing Council
  
  The Truth, Justice and Healing Council was established by the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference 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 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 Barry O'Keefe AM QC 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.
  
  