The focus is still on the religious orders in the abuse scandal that is to us what the stolen Generations are to the Australians. Like the ozzies, we're unlikely to embrace the full truth, which would require looking at how we were complicit. As some suggest that any visit by the current pope would be unthinkable, given the scandal, how many people embraced the previous pontiff in 1979 when he was here? where was their outrage? Or did they not know?
The Religious need to be taken to task, and also to the cleaners, that's fine. but consider this: does the obsession with financial compensation, and the studied ignoring of the state's role, of the role of our population in a particular complicity really do anything but cheapen the suffering of children, for whom nobody spoke up.
