WORCESTER (MA)
Telegram & Gazette

By Bronislaus B. Kush TELEGRAM & GAZETTE STAFF
bkush@telegram.com

WORCESTER — Francesco C. Cesareo, the president of Assumption College, will lead a special panel of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops that seeks to protect children from sexual predators in the American Roman Catholic Church.

The appointment to chair the National Review Board was made by Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York, who serves as president of the USCCB.

Mr. Cesareo succeeds Al Notzon III, who will step down from the post at the conclusion of the June meeting of the USCCB.

The NRB advises the bishops’ Secretariat for Child and Youth Protection and was established by the Charter for Protection of Children and Young People, which was adopted by the USCCB in 2002.

Mr. Cesareo has been a member of the NRB since 2012.

“The board and its chair provide valuable feedback…