I wish the religious orders would put away their law books and take up the New Testament for a while. I am not engaging in bashing the religious orders, having been educated by one, to which I owe an enormous amount. I also worked for a religious order and know hundreds of their members who have done outstanding work in caring for children and others. The fact remains, however, that some members of religious orders committed abuse, which I will not quantify, and a culture of denial and refusal to accept this fact obtained in the church.