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Member of Pontifical Commission for Protection of Minors Calls for “Balance” of “Confidentiality, Transparency, Accountability”

February 19, 2021

Dr Myriam Wijlens, a canon law professor at the University of Erfurt and a member of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors, told Vatican News the work of the Commission has recently focused on "balancing Confidentiality, Transparency and Accountability”.

As the abuse summit closes, what has changed?

February 25, 2019

(ROME — 24 February 2019) The Vatican’s four-day “summit” on child protection ended on Sunday, with little to show. The three days of the meeting’s working sessions began with a call from Pope Francis for “concrete, effective measures” to combat the clerical sexual abuse of minors, and ended with what essentially came to more promises.

Pope Francis promises ‘all-out battle’ against abuse

February 25, 2019

Pope Francis on Sunday outlined eight points that the Church will focus on in an “all-out battle” against the sexual abuse of minors to, he said, “turn this evil into an opportunity for purification.” “We need to recognize with humility and courage that we stand face to face with the mystery of evil, which strikes

Pope Francis covered up for bishop who had gay porn on his phone, Vatican journalist says

February 25, 2019

A prominent Vatican journalist has accused Pope Francis of covering up for an Argentine bishop who had gay porn on his phone. Inés San Martin, who is one of the most respected journalists in the Vatican press corps, asked Archbishop Charles Scicluna at a press conference after the abuse summit: “We know there is a

The Church needs transparency. These two cases show it has a long way to go

February 25, 2019

(ROME — 25 February 2019) Even before the thing began — whatever the thing was that happened over four days last week and into Sunday here in Rome — the pieces didn’t quite fit. At the Monday presser presenting the three days of working sessions and two liturgies that were to serve as capstones to the

‘What have I failed to do?’ – Pope leads bishops in abuse crisis examination of conscience

February 24, 2019

Pope Francis Saturday led the presidents of the world’s bishops’ conferences in a penitential liturgy and examination of conscience on their failures in handling abuse within the Catholic Church. “For three days we have spoken to each other and listened to voices of victim survivors about the crimes that children and young people have suffered

Files naming abusers were destroyed, says cardinal

February 24, 2019

Transparent, reliable and respectful administration is critical for counteracting sinful behavior within the Catholic Church, said German Cardinal Reinhard Marx of Munich and Freising. “There are no alternatives to traceability and transparency,” he said, adding that he saw no convincing reason why the “pontifical secret” should apply “to the prosecution of criminal offenses concerning the

What was missing from the Pope’s closing remarks at the abuse summit

February 24, 2019

Pope Francis this morning delivered his concluding remarks to participants in the four-day meeting on child protection that began last Thursday here at the Vatican. It’s a speech that makes interesting reading for several reasons, not least of which is the organisation of its substance: Francis is a dozen paragraphs in – some of them