The people who taught you right from wrong were mostly women who were great people and great teachers, but they had no power.

The Smyllum case in Scotland (inquiry currently going on) is rather telling. Some of the current senior nuns are publicly admitting responsibility on behalf of their order - but pretty weakly, and the one thing they NEVR do is name any more names. They will unwillingly concede that the victims' testimony is true, but they will NOT provide information leading to the exposure of any abuse that hasn't already become public. They MUST know where the bodies are buried (and quite literally so in this case).

There is, now, nothing to stop elderly priests, nuns and monks from voluntarily walking into a police station to report what they know. None of them ever do so.

They DO have power in this situation - the power to testify. And they aren't using it.