Very good article:  A Jesuit reflects on the impact..."  Good in bringing a perspective for Catholic hierarchy to view what has been learned from the Australian investigation into child sex abuse and in many other state and national investigations.

Brennan helps make some important point:  
* "The Catholic Church has had a problem with child sexual abuse and it needed state assistance and community pressure to acknowledge publicly the extent of the problem and all its ramifications."
* "You [referring to the members of the Royal Commission] have far more experience pastorally on these things than even all these learned professors and bishops I am surrounded by will ever have.'
* "Even Rome needs to accept that a more transparent, accountable and inclusive hierarchy would have spared many children the horrors of abuse."

While the faith has much to give to people and societies, the Church needs to also understand what people and societies have to teach them.  It is a two way street.