AUSTRALIA
The Tablet
August 29, 2017
Mark Brolly
Two members of the Truth Justice and Healing Council – the body established by the Australian bishops and religious orders to liaise with the Royal Commission – have spoken out, with Vice Chair Ms Elizabeth Proust telling the Australian Broadcasting Corporation that she was “pessimistic” about the Church’s willingness to reform and Council member Professor Greg Craven criticising the Commission and media coverage.
Ms Proust, a businesswoman and former leading civil servant, said she feared the Church would emerge from the Royal Commission only “partially cleansed and unreconstructed”.
“I fear there’s a view that once the royal commission reports, and the publicity around what will be a fairly dire report once that all dies down, that life will go back to what it was,” she told the ABC’s ‘Religion and Ethics Report’ on 16 August. “I hope I’m wrong. I’d like to think that the possibility for real transformation of the Church exists, but it’s an institution that’s been very slow to change on a whole range of issues.”
Ms Proust – who chairs the Australian Institute of Company Directors and formerly was head of the Victorian Department of P
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