The priest was appointed March 3, 2023, as consultant to the Diocese of Rome’s newly established office dedicated to the protection of minors and vulnerable persons.
Abuse expert Father Hans Zollner looks at the state of the crisis in the church today
Pandemic holds needed lessons on vulnerability, child advocate says
Building a consistent “theology of childhood” and the importance of safeguarding children was the beginning talk of the “Safeguarding Webinar Series” on June 8.
Harming a child must be ‘line in the sand’ for removal, cardinal says
For the Catholic Church, there is a “line in the sand,” which can never be crossed, and that is to not allow anyone who harms or would harm a child to exercise public ministry, said Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley of Boston.
Vatican summit to create task force to aid bishops in safeguarding
Since the work of child protection must continue after the February meeting at the Vatican on safeguarding, one organizer said they plan on creating a “task force” with teams on every continent.
Pope meets his advisory commission on child protection
In its efforts to help advise the pope, the Roman Curia, bishops’ conferences and local churches on protecting minors from abuse, a Vatican commission listened to abuse survivors from Great Britain and discussed the results of Australia’s public inquiry into its country’s institutional responses to abuse.
Top-down turned around: Child protection goes global from the ground up
Father Hans Zollner, president of the Center for Child Protection at Rome’s Pontifical Gregorian University, told Catholic News Service in late December of the center’s plan to launch the new alliance in the coming months.