The New York Times’s Jason Horowitz and Laurie Goodstein report that on Wednesday the pope made an unprecedented order for bishops from around the world to come to Rome for a meeting on sexual abuse. Horowitz and Goodstein note, “After three decades of denial, the Vatican is being forced to treat the sex abuse problem as a global crisis, and not the failing of a particular country or culture.” They add, “News of the pope’s summons came as a study commissioned by the church in Germany revealed the abuse of thousands of children by more than a thousand clergymen there for decades.”