CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER - PLUMMER URGES POPE ON PAEDOPHILE CRACKDOWN

Veteran Canadian actor CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER has called on the new POPE BENEDICT XVI to remove paedophiles from the Roman Catholic Church.

The SOUND OF MUSIC star, 77, researched religious child abusers in preparation for his role as CARDINAL BERNARD LAW, in the TV movie OUR FATHERS, based on the former Archbishop of Boston, who was demoted after several of his priests were linked to a child sex scandal.

The priests in question were later given new roles in the church by late POPE JOHN PAUL II.

Plummer fumes, "I don't know why the church didn't send them to jail.

"This scandal is not over. They cannot hide behind crimson robes."