by Dan Baird

There have been a number of Church related reports this year and it is to be hoped that The Light from the Southern Cross (LSC) will not be lost from sight among them.

The 208-page report owes its existence to the Australian Government’s Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse (2013-2017), which stressed that there had been decades of major failures in the Church’s leadership in protecting children from abuse. The Commission recommended that Australia’s bishops conduct a thorough review of their governance structures.