Cardinal O’Malley ‘strongly disagrees’ with Father Hans Zollner’s resignation from Vatican sex abuse commission
VATICAN CITY (VATICAN CITY)
America [New York NY]
March 30, 2023
By Carol Glatz, Catholic News Service
Read original articleVATICAN CITY (CNS) — Cardinal Seán P. O’Malley of Boston, president of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors, expressed his surprise, disappointment and disagreement with statements challenging the commission’s effectiveness made by a prominent safeguarding expert who resigned from the advisory body.
However, “the commission has a plenary meeting scheduled in the next few weeks during which we can address these and other matters more fully as a group,” the cardinal said in an updated statement March 30.
Jesuit Father Hans Zollner, a leading expert in the field and member of the commission since it was founded in 2014, stepped down in mid-March but gave the reasons for his departure in a public statement March 29, saying it was due to urgent “structural and practical issues that led me to disassociate myself” from the papal commission.
Father Zollner’s criticisms came just a few hours after his resignation was…
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