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A lot has happened since a Pennsylvania Grand Jury issued a report on 70 years of sex abuse in the Catholic Church.

Missouri is the first state to announce an investigation into clergy abuse.

The Catholic Church agrees to cooperate with a task force to investigate sex abuse by priests in New Jersey.

The New York Attorney General's action comes less than a month after the escape of the accused.

The Attorney General's office wants records from all three Nebraska dioceses dating back to 1978.

The state of New Mexico is now investigating sexual abuse within the Roman Catholic Church.

As our eye team sits down with Roman Catholic Cardinal Blase Supich, he is defending the Chicago Archdiocese, while vowing to open up church books and records to the Illinois Attorney General.

And it's not just other states taking action today. The Pope called the bunch of United States bishops to the Vatican for a sit-down.

To discuss how to stop priest sex abuse and protect children.

During this meeting, he ordered an investigation into a West Virginia bishop who's facing allegations he sexually harassed adults.

He is also called a meeting next February of bishops from around the world to come up with a church-wide response to the abuse crisis.

Jack Jenkins has been following this story for religion news service.

At least seven states. New York, New Jersey, Nebraska, New Mexico, Florida, Missouri, and Illinois have all launched some form of an investigation into dioceses in their state,

specifically seeking the documents often that dioceses hold on to.

When the Pennsylvania report came out, a lot of the report was based upon internal documents that the diocese kept about allegations of abuse against children by priests.

And it appears that most, if not all, dioceses keep those kinds of records.

So these attorneys general in these various states are kind of seeking those out.

Or in some instances, the dioceses or the archdioceses are offering them up willingly for the attorneys general to review.

So you are definitely seeing these kinds of reactions. And you see a little bit of varying intensity in Illinois.

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