Abuse survivors have won their latest fight against the Christian Brothers. But why did it take so much pain and suffering to get here? | Christopher Knaus

Last month’s announcement that the Catholic order was about to go broke wreaked carnage everywhere I looked. Lives have been thrown into turmoil

Early last month, Peter* had some welcome news.

The Christian Brothers had agreed to settle. The Catholic order was going to compensate him for his horrific abuse at the hands of a teacher at the Christian Brothers College in St Kilda in the 1980s.