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.
VATICAN 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
Cardinal Seán P. O’Malley expressed his surprise, disappointment and disagreement with statements challenging the commission’s effectiveness made by Father Hans Zollner.
The commission issued an updated statement on March 30 in which Cardinal O’Malley said he was ‘supplementing’ his earlier sentiments regarding Father Zollner’.
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