From Australia: comment 1

An interesting pair of articles in the Catholic Leader publication and an interesting discussion on the Catholica website regarding ontological change.  

Francis Sullivan, CEO of the Catholic Church bishops' sponsored Truth, Justice and Healing Council has worked extensively to listen to and speak to the Australian Royal Commission on child sex abuse.  t a recent gathering of priests in Brisbane, home of Archb Mark Coleridge's seat, he had quite a bit to say:

"Our culture grew the abusers and our culture protected the abusers and our culture for so long denied the victims...We didn’t listen. We didn’t believe...And when priests did muck up, the basic tendency of other priests was to cover up..The tribe looked after itself."

A bit of truth: "People who have been abused are scared of talking to the Church, and people in the Church are scared of the people who have been abused."   He then talked about how the local priest needs to be the bridge.

See next2