The Catholic Church’s cover-up of priests in Pennsylvania that were sexually abusing children went “all the way up to the Vatican” the state’s attorney general said Tuesday — adding he couldn’t specifically speak to what Pope Francis knows.

“There are specific examples where the Vatican knew of this abuse and were involved in the cover-up,” PA Attorney General Josh Shapiro said on “CBS This Morning.”

This revelation comes on the heels of a PA state grand jury report released this month that found over 300 priests abused more than 1,000 children for decades in the state — all while being shielded by church leaders.

“They found not only widespread sexual abuse, rape of children but they found that there was a systematic cover-up that went all the way to the Vatican,” Shapiro said of the two-year-long grand jury investigation on NBC’s “TODAY.”

Shapiro said he had “evidence the Vatican had knowledge of the cover-up” in Pennsylvania but that he couldn’t “specifically speak to Pope Francis.”

In response, the Vatican told CBS News: “If the prosecutor is referring to something outside the report, we’ll have to wait for that.”

Pope Francis was recently accused by a former Vatican official of covering up claims of sexual abuse by Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, the former archbishop of Washington D.C. The official didn’t offer any proof that the pontiff was aware McCarrick had preyed on seminarians and boys. The Pope declined to comment on the allegation.

Since the PA report was released, a dedicated clergy abuse hotline has received more than 700 calls, Shapiro said.

“I want every single survivor out there to know… if they call our hotline, we will listen and we will track down the truth,” he said, vowing to prosecute those he could.

About a dozen attorney generals from other states have also contacted him about the investigation, he said.