Thanks, Sam but the credit should go to Des and Peter and their research team at RMIT who spent five years doing the research and writing it up. I had no import into the report, but was more than happy to summarise it for NCR after reading it and being as impressed by it as you are. Their historical research also provided connections which I had not seen before, such as the significance of Pius X's lowering of the age of confession in 1910, bearing in mind the constant problem that the Church had with priests soliciting sex in the confessional. A whole new field of opportunity for grooming children opened up. Pius XI's solution to improve seminary screening was laudable, but his writing the cover up into canon law created the greatest crisis in the Church since the Reformation. I was also unaware of the early Australian history of clerical abuse, and the difficulties that Sydney's first bishop, Polding, had with some of his priests. The "learning curve" excuse was always nonsense.