official figures on sex abuse — something that troubles the man leading the university course, father hans zollnertican's commission for the protection of minors. from all the reports we have — from france, from germany, from the uk, from the united states, from australia — you can see that it was about 4—5% of priests who were either convicted of abuse or were accused of it through alleged perpetrators. so, this is true for all these countries. so, in all probability, there would be a similar number for italy to be expected. in france, a damning report last year found at least 216,000 children had been abused since 1950 by around 3,000 clergymen. italy has more than twice as many priests as france, so there's likely to have been hundreds of thousands of cases here. but despite the un calling for an independent commission in italy three years ago, there's been no such reckoning. there is a lot of resistance in the system of society in italy to talk about it, even to talk about it. in great britain, in australia, in the us, in germany, society came to a point to confront this issue, and then the ch