Yes, the leader of the Catholic Church in Ireland
So if he doesn't step up then no one should?
And surely if he did step up then he would obviously just be doing it to further the amount of power he had in the church?
Dawkins whole career is based around attacking religion,
Not how I see it. He is an Evolutionary Biologist who wrote some excellent popular science books on evolution and Darwinism, who then had to defend his position in public debate, which got him more and more entrenched until he became "Darwin's Rottweiler".
His subsequent promotion of humanism and questioning of religion seems to me to be a pretty fair response.
But all this is irrelevant. He is in a position to rally public support and finance lawyers to look at this. It will probably come to nothing legally, but hopefully it will make the Catholic church (and any other such body) re-evaluate how they deal with claims of abuse etc.
Which is a good thing.