Collins expressed shock that Mueller considered the tribunal a mere proposal. She questioned if the Vatican already had adequate means to judge negligent bishops.
Sexual Abuse
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Priests should not review abuse claims, says former commission chair
Ms. Collins’ complaints “mirror” concerns she and other members of the National Review Board raised in the early years of the abuse scandal. “The whole thing spoke to me of ‘nothing’s changed.’”
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Reform plan announced in Pennsylvania church sexual abuse case
A year ago, Pennsylvania’s attorney general issued a scathing grand jury report that detailed abuse by more than 50 priests and other clergy against hundreds of children going back decades.
Posted inFaith, News
Alleged Vatican resistance to child protection a ‘cliche,’ Cardinal says
“I think this cliche must be put to an end: the idea that the pope, who wants the reform, is on one side and, on the other, a group of resisters who want to block it.”
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
Abuse survivor Marie Collins: “Resistance” from CDF led to my resignation from papal commission
“Any delay in improving safeguarding documents around the world is leaving vulnerable people and children in danger.”
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Abuse survivor quits protection commission, says Vatican wasn’t protecting children and vulnerable adults
Marie Collins, one of the founding members and the last remaining abuse survivor on the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors, has quit.
Posted inFaith, Interviews
Finding a way forward for wounded and hurting Catholics
A former member of the Legion of Christ on a life turned upside down by sexual abuse in the church.
Posted inFaith, News
Cardinal Burke will preside over trial investigating Guam archbishop
Three men have publicly accused Archbishop Apuron of sexually abusing them when they were altar boys in the 1970s
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Pope Francis in preface to new book: The church must be ‘extremely severe’ with pedophile priests
Francis denounced the abuse of children by priests as “an absolute monstrosity, a horrendous sin, that is radically contrary to all that Christ teaches.”
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Vatican leaks keep coming in new book
Author Francesca Chaouqui received a 10-month suspended sentence for conspiring to pass confidential documents onto two journalists.