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monstrous. for more on the holy father s remarks, cnn s delia gallagher in rome. delia? reporter: good morning to you. yes, in a 55-minute news conference on the flight last night frommi estonia, pope frans only briefly touched on the question of sex abuse. he was insisting with reporters that he wanted to speak about his recent trip to the baltics. so in effect he managed to avoid reporters questions about details of sex abuse. he did go back to it in the last ten minutes of the press conference saying, as you mentioned, that even one case was monstrous but that he felt that the pennsylvania grand jury report showed that there had been a decrease in the number of cases, and that the catholic church was giving it its all in fighting sex abuse. of course the pope is correct, that there has been a decrease in sex abuse cases. but his comment largely misses the point which is that what the pennsylvania grand jury report and other reports show and where