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Rome (CNA) Cardinal Seán O Malley urged religious leaders to be vigilant in preventing child sexual abuse and supporting survivors in healing at a virtual conference organized by Harvard University in partnership with the Vatican and other religious groups this week. We all have a moral and legal obligation to as best possible provide protection and care for the people we serve, especially minors, young people, vulnerable adults in all religious, civic, and social groups, and the people we serve rightfully expect that protection, the archbishop of Boston said April 8 at the opening of the three-day symposium.
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.Juan Carlos Cruz, a survivor of clerical sexual abuse in Chile, becomes emotional after speaking to reporters in New York in this Feb. 17, 2018, file photo. (CNS photo/Eduardo Munoz, Reuters) .Jesuit Father Hans Zollner, director of the Center for Child Protection at Rome s Pontifical Gregorian University, prays during a 2019 meeting at the Vatican on protecting young people in the church. (CNS photo/Paul Haring) .Jesuit Father Hans Zollner, director of the Center for Child Protection at Rome s Pontifical Gregorian University, speaks about the clergy sexual abuse crisis in the church, to an audience Jan. 29, 2020, at Villanova University near Philadelphia. (CNS photo/Sarah Webb, CatholicPhilly.com)
<b>Vatican City</b> • After decades of child sexual abuse scandals, the Catholic Church is ready to share its successes and failures with other religious and lay institutions.
Faiths working together can prevent clergy sex abuse, says priest
Jesuit Father Hans Zollner, a leading Vatican official dealing with clergy sexual abuse in the church, speaks about the crisis to an audience Jan. 29, 2020 at Villanova University. (Photo by Sarah Webb)
By Mark Pattison • Catholic News Service • Posted April 13, 2021
WASHINGTON (CNS) Jesuit Father Hans Zollner, one of the Vatican’s top experts in the field of clergy sexual abuse, said during an interfaith symposium on the subject that working together will help eliminate sexual abuse in different faiths.
“I’ve seen that both faith leaders, and those who are involved as boots on the ground, are quite sensitive to the risks to youth and other vulnerable people,” said Father Zollner, president of the Center for Child Protection at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome.