There have been about 300 reports of priestly abuse in Germany since January.Investigators and reporters alike have been trying to see if the German-born Pope was involved in dealing with accused priests in any way.Leonard Swidler, professor of Catholic Thought & Interreligious Dialogue at Temple University, says the particulars of these cases get caught in the top-down structure of the church: "This is a systemic problem, not specifically and only relating to this question of clerical pedophilia, but rather the secrecy and the authoritarian structure of the Catholic church coming from the time of Constantine in Imperial Rome, forward."