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And fail to act, then they need to be held accountable too. that is piece of the puzzle has has really not fallen yet into place. i think people here and around the world are expecting francis will address it in it ireland. >> yes. in fact, pennsylvanias a.g. josh shapiro said the case not closed. does the church support legal action against those who are accused? >> oh, absolutely. the churchs firm follow, certainly in the united states, since 2002 when the sex abuse crisis first flblew up ther...

Went through myself as a victim in the 80s. >> wow. where do you go from here? >> i dont know. that has a lot to do with what the church decides to do. personally im on my own journey, but being an advocate for this, the church has to step up and take accountability, take responsibility, and begin to protect victims, past, present and future. that is the most important thing. thats what i want to see happen. >> let me read you part of the van cans responsibility that came out thursday a few days...

Report are criminal and morally rep prehencible. those acts were betrayals of trust that robbed survivors of their dignity and faith. the church must learn hard lessons from its past and there should be accountability from abusers and those who permitted abuse to occur. to hear the word criminal, how did that sit with those who have long suffered in silence, those calling it and reacting? >> its just a word. we didnt hear action. that is what the people im talking to want. okay. the vatican feel...

Victims of their dignity and in many cases also robbed them of their faith in jesus christ, in god. the church has to learn some hard lessons from the past. from has to be accountability. not only for the abusers but for those who permitted the abuse. >> those remarks coming after the pope received backlash are not immediately speaking out about that report released tuesday about the actions of 300 predator priests who abused more than 1,000 child victims. more than 300 news outlets publishing e...

This little statement before hand. what was absent from the statement was any expression of apology. any expression that what he has done after cardinal mccarrick, his predecessor has come out to be involved with roping seminarians, basically in activity, and that his name for either neglecting or at worst covering up for abusers in the pittsburgh archdiocese, you would think that he would do something to act as if he was somehow trying to keep his flock safe, but he did not look like that sort ...

He said that for people who say that we should have reported this sooner, we did not know what the law was as a child to read how did you expect us to know what the law was as we were being raped or abused, he is asking for the end of statue of limitations. do you have any thoughts on that? >> one of my main problems with the way that the church has handled this is that men who committed crimes were treated as if they were simply men with some possible psychological issues. and so they did not e...

Tell me the morality. i mean what do you tell an institution that teaches morality but has none? >> our correspondent jean casarez is back with me following this story. the vatican for its part not saying anything this morning. we are though now hearing from the u.s. conference of bishops. right? >> we have. and they have quite a lengthy statement. lets show everyone what it is. first, they say the report of the pennsylvania grand jury again illustrates the pain of those who have been victims of...

Means that theyre essentially very difficult to prosecute and sometimes i mean theyre put in places where its much easier for them to continue perpetrating these kind of these kinds of prices of priests were protected rotated around into different parishes of different dioceses within ten sylvania theres only been two charges brought against the more than three hundred abusers in this case what why is that well partly because crime spree scribe so that means to. that there are a bunch of this ca...

A criminal organization so it is notable that most of these priests were moved just when in pennsylvania its much more often that we see that priests actually are very very remote places from their original they also says which means that theyre essentially very difficult for us acute and sometimes i mean theyre put in places where its much easier for them she continued perpetrating these kind of this kind of crisis of priests were protected rotated around into different parishes of different di...

Children were abused over seventy years they see the real number though might be much higher. a staggering grand jury the stuff were joined now by did abuse us its correspondent martin jacques is following the story first good morning to you martin this is horrific theres no way to really qualify this one thing one way i could think of describing it were talking about at least one thousand children perhaps thousands abused over seventy years how could the catholic church in pennsylvania cover th...