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Further to what my friend Rev Bob has said, this also applies to religious superiors. Too many heads of orders of nuns, brothers, and priests (e.g., the Christian Brothers (of both flavors), Sisters of Mercy, Holy Cross, and Jesuits) have been concerned first for the 'good of the order,' second for the well-being of their abusive priests, brothers and nuns, and finally and a very distant third comes the victims and survivors. From a memo made publicly available, for example, it appears that a Lasallian Christian Brother major superior stood behind a brother who now has over a dozen lawsuits pending against him, about half of those AFTER the superior pronounced him "cured" and put him back into ministry despite a decades-long history of abusing boys. The consequences to himself? He is now second-in-command of the Christian Brothers world-wide and first-in-line to run the whole "show." Most of us only wish of the kinds of assurances of life-long health care, a secure retirement, and so on which abusive members of religious orders receive in the forgiving arms of their organizations.