In a meeting today withArchbishop Gerhard Ludwig Muller, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the faith, Pope Francis urged him to "act decisively" against sexual abuse, "continuing along the lines set by Benedict XVI," according to a Vatican news release. How?

First of all by promoting measures for the protection of minors, as well as in offering assistance to those who have suffered abuse, carrying out due proceedings against the guilty, and in the commitment of bishops' conferences to formulate and implement the necessary directives in this area that is so important for the Church's witness and credibility.

Presumably that would include verifying that the world's bishops conferences had turned in to the CDF guidelines for responding to abuse allegations, as they were instructed to do in May 2011.More from Catholic News Service here.