our world lead, an ex-ttense report by the catholic church itself finds retired pope benedict knew priests were abusing children when he was archbishop of munich but refused to act. pope benedict s spokesperson says he has not read the 1,000-page report yet and adds benedict, quote, as he has many times during the years of his time as pope expressed his pain and shame for the abuses of minors. cnn s vatican correspondent is live for us. give us a sense of the scale of this investigation. reporter: well, jake, the report is over 1,800 pages. it spans a time period of seven years in the archdiocese of munich. it took two years to compile
on an editing error during his time as arch pweurb op of the archdiocese of munich. delia gallagher live in rome. what do you make of this explanation of his initial denial? reporter: well, listen, brianna, it does seem feasible if there was an editing error. let s go back and understand that this is a response to one of the four accusations that he mishandled sex cases. this was a priest transferred into the archdiocese to receive therapy for pedophilia. it is unclear what his record was before then. he received theory, put back in clergy, and then convicted in 1986 of sexual abuse. to investigators, he said he was not present at this meeting. they said they didn t find that