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Welcome back to "velshi & ruhle." pope francis is calling for a summit at the vatican to meet with archbishops from around the world to focus specifically on preventing sex abuse by clergy and protecting children. the meeting is believed to be the first of its kind but it's not happening until late february. top u.s. church leadership are heading to the vatican tomorrow to meet with pope francis, including the archbishop of washington, d.c., cardinal donald wuerl. he form early was the archbishop of pittsburgh and is planning to discuss his possible resignation with francis in the face of reve...

Meaningfully accomplished. it's just so smoke and mirrors by the catholic church. >> swift action, a full investigation with transparency is the only route that the catholic church could possibly take to get out of this, but to your point, they're not, and i want to talk about archbishop because you're representing 50 victims of sex abuse in the pennsylvania catholic diocese. one of those cases you settled with the pittsburgh diocese in 2016 for a whole lot of money. it involved an abusive priest who served in alleghany county from '85 to '88. talk to us about where he was then and where he wa...

Arrested and still archbishop wherl stands there. he is the highest catholic priest in the united states. he was the guy who ran pittsburgh. think about that. mitchell, thanks so much for joining me today. let's go back to my partner ali velshi. you know where he is, covering this monster storm heading straight to the east coast. >> reporter: let me tell you about this place. this is the cape fear river over here. it goes down into the atlantic over there. that's the east coast. that's where the storms are going to come from. this place has a lot of craft breweries and the cape fear craft beer...

Pennsylvania diocese including the archdiocese of pittsburgh. michael, let's start with this the february summit, the associated press says that this, quote, signals a realization at the highest levels of the church that clergy sex abuse is a global problem and not restricted to the anglo saxon world. when i read that, we're not talking about nail biting or staying up too late. to say we're going to have a summit, yep, that's a big deal but what does it signal to you that they're not having it until february? what could the catholic church possibly be focus oed on betwee now and then that's mo...