How very, very much I hope that Bishop Long will rise in the hierarchy and become an Australian Cardinal who is on the side of the survivors, unlike Cardinal Pell who is on the side of protecting the Church at all costs.  Pell treated a very broken survivor, John Ellis, disgracefully by throwing all the legal weight he, Pell, had at his disposal and effectively creating a situation in Australia where the Catholic Church cannot be sued in relation  to CSA.  Pell's creation of the Melbourne Response purported to help survivors, but in effect, capped compensation at a very low figure and acceptance of compensation meant that survivors had to keep silent.

Bishop Long has done more for the healing of survivors, just by his words, than all the sophistry and  rhetoric now being poured forth by other hierarchs at the Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Child Abuse.  Bishop Long 'gets it', and I sincerely hope that speaking out does not curtail his advancement in the church.