Pope Benedict XVI is the first pontiff to apologize for sexual abuse by Catholic priests, but according to this report he’d delayed the defrocking of pedophile priests during his 30 previous years in positions of power within the church. CNN correspondent Gary Tuchman talks with abuse victims, probes internal church documents, and conducts a rare interview with Charles Scicluna, the Vatican’s own, internal prosecutor. What emerges is a complex portrait of the current pope in which, as biographer David Gibson puts it, he is neither villain nor hero. Saturday, Sept. 25, at 8 p.m., CNN
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