Thank you. The changes in canon law I am talking about will not get rid of sexual abuse, because they really relate to the cover up, not the abuse itself. But the cover up did contribute to more children being abused than  would otherwise have occurred. In 1946 the Spanish canon lawyer Aurelio Yanguas stated that the purpose of Crimen was to get rid of clergy child sexual abusers swiftly and secretly before they ended up in the dock as sex offenders. The problem was that Crimen also provided that bishops had an obligation to reform the priest and dismiss only as an absolute last resort. And so they got shifted around. There is no question that some bishops were at fault, but canon law particularly after 1983 made it virtually impossible to have these priests dismissed. You can't separate law from culture. I have dealt with this in some detail in my book and submission to the Royal Commission.