Maple leaf state a little withered after outbreak of public transparency

When lawyer and co-author Peter Kavanagh and I were researching for our book Suffer the Children Unto Me: An Open Inquiry into the Clerical Sex Abuse Scandal, we discovered again and again that protection of the perpetrators took precedence over justice for the victims because the integrity of the institution, the reputation of the structure, was deemed paramount.
The cover-up by prelates, apologists and lay administrators was conceived not as a deception but as an imperative: avoid scandal at all costs in order to ensure that the institution and its office-holders were not sundered in their mission.

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