The Christian Brothers no longer have the social licence to exist

Of all the shocking statistics that form part of the legacy of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, these stick out to me. As of 1950, it was claimed that 22% of all high-ranking men belonging to the Christian Brothers sect of the Roman Catholic Church were pedophile hunters. Between 1980 and 2015, 1,015 people made child abuse allegations against the Christian Brothers, and 483 people were alleged perpetrators.

Like all child sexual abuse statistics, this was undoubtedly underrepresented.