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  I don't know what the answer is, Danno. You know that I wish you well, I hope.
  The people (Catholics) who have been talking to this Australian Commission seem to have discussed and agreed the need for a 'cultural change' in the Catholic Church. I think that is what you are asking for.
  However, there seem to be other Church people who have refused to participate - or who have dropped out at the last minute.
  Left to itself, the Church moves very slowly, and it changes very slowly. It is a large international organisation. Then we have to contend with this canon law, which does not always seem to be helping. 
  So the Church cannot be left to itself. It must be pushed from outside, by external pressures.
  And some countries must be light years behind others, in regard to the matter of clerical sex abuse. Some parts of the world are probably still in complete denial - as we were (in Europe, where I am) not so very long ago.
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