I hope we will manage to bring this whole matter forward and conclude it within a reasonable period with, rather than without, the co-operation of the religious orders. I hope they will do the best that, in conscience, they feel they ought to, bearing in mind the many responsibilities they exercise both for their members and the public at large. I would like to think that we would keep a very clear distinction in our minds between a small minority who took advantage of the ethos and structures of the time to abuse young people and children and the vast majority who acted conscientiously by the best lights of the day, which might not always have been the lights we would follow today. One has to make some allowance for the way in which Christian and public values develop.