Accountability needed in handling sex abuse cases, experts say Work still needed to safeguard minors and vulnerable people in the Catholic Church Trending The Periodica journal of the faculty of canon law at Rome's Pontifical Gregorian University published the talks at the end of 2020. To help foster a wider discussion on work that still must be done to safeguard minors and vulnerable people in the Catholic Church, a canon law journal published a series of talks by experts regarding accountability, transparency and confidentiality in the handling of sexual abuse allegations. The talks were part of a seminar in December 2019 sponsored by the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors to address the topics as well as the seal of confession and the pontifical secret.