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O’malley Left off Pope’s Organizing Committee for Abuse Prevention Summit

By Nicole Winfield
Associated Press via the Boston Globe
November 23, 2018

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2018/11/23/cardinal-sean-malley-left-off-pope-organizing-committee-for-abuse-prevention-summit/x8UCEjHaAWKGOVVScG4dkK/story.html

Pope Francis named the Vatican’s top sex abuse investigator and a close U.S. ally to an organizing committee for a February abuse prevention summit that has grown even more high stakes after the Holy See blocked U.S. bishops from taking action to address the scandal.

Abuse survivors and women working at the Vatican will also contribute to the preparatory committee. Notably absent from the lineup announced Friday was Boston Cardinal Sean O'Malley, who heads the pope’s sex abuse advisory commission, though one of his members, the Rev. Hans Zollner, is the point-person for the group.

In addition to Zollner, the committee includes Maltese Archbishop Charles Scicluna, for a decade the Vatican’s sex crimes prosecutor, Francis appointee Chicago Cardinal Blase Cupich and Indian Cardinal Oswald Gracias, a member of Francis’ key cardinal adviser group.

 

 

 

 

 




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