AUSTRALIA
ABC – Lateline

Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Broadcast: 12/11/2012
Reporter: Emma Alberici

Father Frank Brennan, Jesuit priest, Professor of Law at the Australian Catholic University and Professorial Visiting Fellow at the University of New South Wales, discusses the fundamental challenges ahead for the church and the call for a royal commission.

Transcript

EMMA ALBERICI, PRESENTER: Father Frank Brennan is a Jesuit priest and Professor of Law at the Australian Catholic University in Canberra.

He drove from the south coast of New South Wales to join us in our Sydney studio just a short time ago.

Father Brennan, thanks so much for coming in tonight.

FRANK BRENNAN, JESUIT PRIEST AND LAWYER: Good to be with you.

EMMA ALBERICI: Now you were opposed to a royal commission per se. What are your reservations?

FRANK BRENNAN: I was opposed to a national royal commission because I thought there were a…