town itself. it is an amazing achievement, an amazing story. nick mccallum from usaustra a australia s seven network reporting. we want to bring to you a story bringing light to new revelations of child abuse by catholic priests. all in a letter that dates back to 1997. in it a vatican representative expresses serious reservations about reporting cases to the police arguing that it could lead to embarrassment for the church. let s bring in our senior international correspondent dan rivers. hey, dan. when you look at this letter, is it a smoke gun that vixen s groups are saying? they re saying it as key piece of evidence that could be used in an investigation against the vatican going forward. it is a letter written in 1997 by effectively the vatican s ambassador in island who was urging the irish bishops had asked him whether they should automatically report abuse to
24 hours from now north pole, alaska, will be sending him off and our reporter is live outside santa s house in the north pole. hopefully putting in a good word for us. right, bob? reporter: yeah. if you ve been nice, i m sure you re on the good list. merry christmas. good morning to you, lynn. you can feel something magical is about to happen in the north pole, something starring a jolly old elf and rudolph and his tiny reindeer as it turns out are not that tiny at all. sometimes even the fastest animals in the world have to take it slow. dasher, dancer, prancer, vixen, comet, cupid, donner, blitz en, all resting for what in 24 hours will be the maddest dash around the world. it s to a sleigh helping the jolliest guy in the world deliver on the countless toy requests pouring into the remote town of north pole, alaska. until you get out here, you have no clue. reporter: the u.s. postal
welcome back to first look. i m lynn berry. are you ready? hopefully santa is. 24 hours from now north pole, alaska, will be sending him off and our reporter is live outside santa s house in the north pole. hopefully putting in a good word for us. right, bob? reporter: yeah. if you ve been nice, i m sure you re on the good list. merry christmas. good morning to you, lynn. you can feel something magical is about to happen in the north pole, something starring a jolly old elf and rudolph and his tiny reindeer as it turns out are not that tiny at all. sometimes even the fastest animals in the world have to take it slow. dasher, dancer, prancer, vixen, comet, cupid, donner, blitzen, all resting for what in 24 hours will be the maddest dash around the world. it s to a sleigh helping the jolliest guy in the world deliver on the countless toy requests pouring into the remote town of north pole, alaska. until you get out here, you have no clue. reporter: the u.s. postal service has bee
got everyone. now many officials you talk torques the investigators say we would never do something like that. i think they were pretty confident and they were going to get them. let s go to bill. here is the real story: this whole insurance department cannot be incident cannot be good for the nissan pathfinder. you would think that would be the real vixen. the victim here is our nation s tourist/aunts that got out of this. halfway through a viewing of this wonderful disney broadway show it was interrupted by a couple of fireworks. terrible. we gotta say that we have to treat every failed terror as a successful one. the only reason why that didn t explode is was it was a bad bomb. but he would have have gotten away with it and it scares the [bleep] out of me. wow. you know what amazes me is
reported the case from the ground in perugia, we were met with a lot of resistance from the family. we were denied interviews and things like that with the family, because they didn t like our coverage. there was a lot of perception here in the states, it felt like in the italian press it was really being trumped up as sort of a tabloid story n they were taking this innocent young american girl and putting her face out there. she was attractive. this was something that was selling papers. the more salacious the story, the better in that sense. in the uk, italian and uk tabloids really had a heyday with this story. the reality is somewhere in the middle, amanda is not the innocent her parents say she is but not the vixen the tabloid said she is. she s somewhere in the middle. what a nightmare. i remember going back, as a young girl, so many kids do this, go overseas.