Ryan Report at 10: No justice for victims of clerical abuse

There are few nations, cultures and institutions of significant size and power that when examining their histories can present a record untarnished by acts of abominable cruelty... undertakings so inexcusable, so far off the moral compass that shapes universal concepts of right and wrong, good and evil that the marks they leave are inerasable.

They endure in our collective memories for decades, even centuries.