The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse has focused more public attention on the Catholic Church in Australia than on any other organisation subject to this investigation. It is a cathartic moment for the Church.
Chris McGillion is former religious affairs editor for the Sydney Morning Herald. He is the editor of A Long Way From Rome: Why the Australian Catholic Church is in Crisis (Allen & Unwin, 2003) and co-author of Our Fathers: What Australian Catholic Priests Really Think About their Lives and their Church (John Garratt, 2011). He teaches journalism at Charles Sturt University, Australia. Damian Grace is an Honorary Associate in the Department of Government and International Relations at the University of Sydney, Australia. He is co-author of Business Ethics (Oxford: Oxford University Press, fifth edition 2013).
