did not reveal a great deal more about Ryan's offending but conceded the bishop and church had covered-up Ryan's abuse of children for decades. The Diocese of Maitland-Newcastle has acknowledged the failures of leadership, including Clarke and Cotter, in concealing child sexual abuse, failing to protect children and inadequate pastoral care to survivors of clerical abuse. The diocese offered a public apology to the Special Commission of Inquiry in 2013 and Bishop Wright read a statement of apology and admitted past failings during the 2014 sitting of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. In 2020, in advance of the broadcast of ABC's series Revelation, Bishop William Wright ordered the removal of a plaque in Maitland Cathedral celebrating the life of Clarke. Bibliography References External links Catholic Hierarchy listing for Bishop Clarke 1923 births 2006 deaths Roman Catholic bishops of Maitland-Newcastle Maitland, New South Wales 20th-century Roman Catholic bishops in Australia