THE Catholic Church has travelled a tortuous path in its responses to the issue of child sexual abuse by clergy. But, speaking as a Catholic, in many ways George Pell's funeral for me represents a new low point ('Tears, protests at Pell's farewell', Newcastle Herald 3/2).
As victim survivors watched from across the road and the country, the high priests of the Church staged an event designed to announce to them loud and clear: "We may have been forced to finally deal with you, but our first allegiance will always be to the power and status of our institution."
