not every parent s worst strong safeguarding measures are not universal so i don t think anything has changed but this is the public know what is going on. well this weekend pope francis will embark on the first papal visit to ireland for nearly forty years the turnout for his appearances is much likely to is likely to be much smaller than the crowds that greeted john paul the second decades ago even as francis struggles to restore confidence in the church new revelations about current and past sex abuse and cover ups by the church in the united states chile and australia of call into question the leadership of bishops and cardinals accused of protecting predatory create a file priests in the vatican is facing growing pressure from the faithful to cooperate with criminal investigators. amassing haley was himself abuse by catholic priests he now advocates on behalf of abuse