America’s Vatican correspondent Gerard O’Connell has some ideas about the reasons behind the controversial, 11th-hour intervention from Rome at the U.S. bishops’ November meeting.

This week on “Inside the Vatican,” we devote the entire show to recent developments in the sexual abuse crisis.

As workers were getting St. Peter's Square ready for this year's Nativity scene, nearby a large mobile health care facility was set up and running to serve the city's homeless and poor.

The pope’s decision gives the Maltese archbishop the lead role in the fight against abuse in the church and in the protection of minors.

The Vatican has asked them to delay the vote until after a February meeting in Rome with the heads of bishops conferences from around the world to discuss sexual abuse.