receive a report on that he has fact them and he has taken the initiative to do that i mean this peter isley who heads the group ending clergy abuse as the only way to solve this is at the top he the pope can do it with the stroke of a pen and he does feel every now and then went when there is a report when there is credible allegation when there is an investigation that proves the allegations that he has done it last december the wall street journal reported that a little known vatican appeals panel had been going soft on priests convicted of sexual abuse under church law in more than a 3rd of the cases it said those priests had their penalties sharply reduced so much for the kind of 0 tolerance the pope has been advertising around the world but this is an appeal court in every law system you have a 1st instance and then you have an appeal so that did not exist until it was established 5 years ago it wasn't pleasing senior cardinals would have been june 27th in a vatican meeting cardinal sean o'malley of boston reportedly complained bitterly about excessive leniency this is below the trend