. >> reporter: peter saunders was a victim of sexual abuse at the hands of his catholic priest at schoolso was his brother mike. peter runs an organization helping other survivors. >> most survivors are not particularly interested in compensation. they are interested in seeing change. they are interested in knowing that what .hahhed to them is not going to happen to future generations. having said that, compensation, i think is entirely appropriate, when it comes to people whose life -- whose childhoods have been stolen. >> reporter: the vatican has a new pope. he's popular and he has made some big promises. he wants openness and a new transparency even on this toxic issue. he set up a new committee of its own to look into it. thursday's appearance before the un is overdue, the extent to which they engage seriously with the un will be a test of francis's papacy and whether he can deliver on the issue of sexual abuse and allegations of cover up. a new report details how widespread the abuse has been. the authors have little optimism the church will change its approach. >> we have traced b

. >> peter saunders was a victim of actual abuse at the hands of his catholic priest at school. for him abuse triggered a life cursed by drink and drugs and an early death. >> peter runs an organization helping other survivors. >> most survivors are not interested in compensation. they are interested in seeing change. they are interested in knowing that what happened to them is not going to happen to future generations. having said that, compensation is entirely appropriate when it comes to people whose child hoods have been stolen. >> the vatican has a new pope, he's popular and made promises. pope francis wants openness and transparency on this toxic issue. he set up a committee of his own to look into it. thursday's appearances is overdue. the extent to which they engage will be a test of france's papacy, and whether he can deliver on the issue of sexual abuse and the allegations of cover up. a report details how widespread the abuse would be. the authors have little optimism that the church would change its approach. >> we have traced back over the last two decades all the pr

. >> peter saunders was a victim of sexual abuse at the hands of his catholic priest at school. so was his brother mike. for him abuse delivered a life cursed by drink and drugs and an early death. peter runs an organization helping other survivors. >> most survivor are not interests in compensation. they are friday in change, interested in knowing that what happened to them is not going to happen to future generations. having said that, compensation is entirely appropriate when it comes to people whose child hoods have been stolen. >> the vatican has a new pope. he's popular and made big promises, pope francis wants openness even on this toxic issue. he set up a committee of his own. the extent to which they engaged seriously with the u.n. will be a test of francis's papacy, and on whether he can deliver on the issue of sexual abuse and the allegations of cover up. a new report details how widespread the abuse will be. >> we have sort of traced back over the last sort of two decades all the promises that they made versus what happened. there has been many promise in the past, b