Former Vatican official urges Pope Francis to implement global zero-tolerance law for clergy abuse, calling for a fundamental shift in the Church's approach to safeguarding victims
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FILE PHOTO: Father Hans Zollner , President of the Centre for Child Protection, attend the World Congress "Child Dignity in the Digital World" at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, Italy October 3, 2017.
Rev. Hans Zollner, a German Jesuit priest who resigned in frustration from the Pope’s clergy abuse commission in 2022, was part of a press conference in Rome with Ending Clergy Abuse, an international group of victims.Zollner, who heads a center for the study of abuse at Rome’s Pontifical Gregorian University, said the Church needed “a change of knowledge, a change of attitude, a change of mentality much more than what has been done so far”.
The US bishops enacted their zero-tolerance law with Vatican approval after extensive reporting on abuse scandals in Boston, where priests accused of sexual abuse had been moved from parish to parish for years. The Vatican did not immediately respond to a request for comment about Monday’s press conference. Vatican officials have in the past pointed to the difficulty of creating a single abuse reporting law for the hundreds of countries in which the Church operates. – Rappler.comGlobal Affairs
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