VATICAN CITY (CNS) Jesuit Father Hans Zollner, a leading safeguarding expert, resigned from the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors because of his concerns over how the advisory body had been working over the past years.
There are urgent structural and practical issues, he said, that led me to disassociate myself from the papal commission.
A member of the papal commission since its establishment in 2014, Father Zollner had submitted his resignation to Pope Francis, who ac
VATICAN CITY (CNS) Pope Francis has accepted Jesuit Father Hans Zollner s request to no longer be a member of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors.
A leading safeguarding expert and a member of the papal commission since its establishment in 2014, Father Zollner had asked the pope to be relieved of his duties as a member, Boston Cardinal Seán P. O Malley, president of the commission, said in a written statement March 29. Father Hans told me that he came to this decisio
There are urgent “structural and practical issues that led me to disassociate myself” from the papal commission of sex abuse, Father Hans Zollner said.