Recently I remarked on
the “extra special care” we need to show for each other as we react to
the landscape of sexual abuse that has been heightened since the
commencement of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to
Child Sexual Abuse (RC). Aurora has invited me to consider how
this might be done, attitudinally and practically.
Finding answers is
much tougher than acknowledging a need! All of us, but particularly
those in Church communities, so close to the intensity of clerical abuse
and individual and public pain, are reeling. Initially, it seemed
impossible to believe − now it seems impossible to know what to do.