Child Protection Week Morning Tea

Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB addresses those gathered at the Cathedral in support of National Child Protection Week.

11 SEPTEMBER 2022 Child Protection Week

MORNING TEA

“The Safeguarding Project is one of the most important things that the Church in this Archdiocese, and more broadly across Western

Australia, is involved in,” said Archbishop Costelloe SDB at a special morning tea held at St Mary’s Cathedral ahead of Safeguarding Sunday on 11 September. Speaking in support of the National Child Protection Week, Archbishop Costelloe said “It is, of course, a response to the terrible failures of the past. But it is a response that’s designed to ensure that they are never repeated again.” Continuing his speech to representatives from the Archdiocese at the morning tea, Archbishop Costelloe said he believed they – the people on the ground in the concrete realities of our local communities – are the ones who are there to help ensure that no child, no young person, and no vulnerable adult is ever hurt again, in any of our communities.

“You fulfil the ministry of the Lord who brought hope and healing to the broken, and it was the good shepherd, making sure that his flock was kept safe from harm. So, I’d like to invite you to think of yourselves as fulfilling in the ministry that you have, the call that we all have in our own particular vocations, to be good shepherds to each other. It’s a shepherding role that you have. And it’s very much a preventive role,” he said.