The Australian bishops tried to do this with Towards Hearing. Professor of law, Patrick Parkinson advised them that a protocol that did not comply with canon law will always have problems. History has proved him right. The Cumberlege Commission in England came to the same conclusion. The Australian bishops caved in to the demand of the CDF that they could not have mandatory reporting for clerics and that Sacramentorum Sanctitatis Tutela with its pontifical secret applied to them. The only real solution is for Pope Francis to add a few words to Sacramentorum Sanctitatis Tutela to provide for an exception to the pontifical secret to allow reporting to the civil authorities and to make it mandatory. Exceptions can be made for repressive regimes if necessary.