Comment 1

This article appears to want to link this visit by Archb Hart, Coleridge and the Truth, Justice, and Healing Council head as somehow directly connected to the potential trial of Card Pell on child sex abuse charges.  I don’t think that is why the meeting happened now.  A more complete article by Christopher Lamb of The Tablet is found here:  http://www.thetablet.co.uk/news/7883/0/australian-church-facing-biggest-crisis-in-its-history-says-brisbane-archbishop- 

The Australia Royal Commission is due to release it findings in mid December after years of grueling inquiry into institutional response to child sex abuse.  The Catholic Church is one of the religious institutions that has been beaten to a pulp in the long inquiry.  As Coleridge put it:  “The Church has been shaken to the core, or as one well-informed voice has said, ‘It has broken the heart of the Church in this land.” 

My thought is this meeting is more about [continued]