a deal is alleged to have the views children for decades he was considered one of the country s most important church figures state prosecutors are now investigating around one hundred sixty cases of abuse and in germany hundreds of cases of abuse have come to light one of the most shocking five hundred fifty children at a catholic school in the pagans book were victims of sexual molestation up until the one nine hundred ninety s. . the streets of dublin are getting ready for pope francis visit hundreds of abuse cases have been uncovered across ireland francis wants to meet with some of the victims but that hasn t made his visit any less controversial. and for more on this story i spoke earlier with peter saunders he s a member of a global organisation on ending sex abuse by priests and this himself a survivor i asked him if he expects the pope to answer the growing calls to require church authorities to report abuse to police for prosecution. well you know i hope so on a man of faith
kids a lot of very brave voices speaking out like yourself what do you hope will change what is your hope for the future for the church well i mean why would i have never ever known a kind of global response to this but we re seeing at the moment i mean the fact that so many of us are gathering in berlin this weekend and keeping pressure for me it s an indicator that the pope calling for this meeting in february i think the church officialdom and that this is not a criticism of the vast majority of good catholic people who are appalled at what s going on but this is about putting pressure on the church to have a genuine zero tolerance approach such that all the clergy that they know about and there are lots of them suddenly all around the world who are still abusing or exposed and all that information be handed to civil authorities so that kids can be protected in the future all right peter saunders head of the national association