Dublin cleric calls on pope to discuss sexual abuse ahead of visit

Diarmund Martin, who is hosting Francis next week, described the number of sex abuse victims at the hands of Catholic clerics as "immense" and said the pontiff must "speak openly about our past, but also about our future."
Francis will arrive in Dublin on August 25 to attend the World Meeting of Families, which takes place every three years.
Francis is expected to draw significantly smaller crowds than John Paul II did during the last papal visit in 1979, when over 2 million people attended events around the country.