I have been privileged to work with the Indigenous Catholic Community Schools in the Australian Diocese of Darwin, including Ltuyentye Apurte. Mark Brolly (“‘No gap too wide to bridge”, 17 May) rightly points out the failings of many: “settlers”, whose relations with the indigenous were “shameful at best”; governments, that have made little progress in “bridging the gap in reading, writing and numeracy”; and indeed an indefinable group he just calls “Australia” (presumably white) which now tried “to compensate for the injustices … perpetrated in the past”. However, what his article lacks is recognition that individual Catholics, and indeed the Catholic Church, contributed significantly to the problems whi