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NZ Catholic Bishops Conference president Cardinal John Dew, and Congregational Leaders Conference of Aotearoa president, Fr Thomas Rouse presented a 10-point statement.
It supported independent entities to process complaints of abuse and give redress to survivors, and it requested that Catholic organisations audit any names they have adopted in titles for buildings, prizes and portraits, to ensure they were not named after abusers, or people who had turned a blind eye to abuse.
But the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests Aotearoa leader, Dr Chris Longhurst, told RNZ: "What the bishops and the congregational leaders of the Catholic Church are saying in public is not what's happening behind closed doors."