Vatican group for minors’ protection may work with Jesuit center

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December 6, 2013 By CNA Daily News

Vatican City, Dec 6, 2013 / 01:13 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- The Church’s latest step toward the prevention of the sexual abuse of minors is the newly-announced Vatican commission, which is expected to collaborate with the Jesuit-run Centre for Child Protection.

“The task of the new commission will be greater than what the Centre for Child Protection would ever be able to realize,” the center’s president, Fr. Hans Zollner, told CNA Dec. 6. “We take care of delivering a program with the aim of educating pastoral personnel. At first glance, this will be an occasion to collaborate with the commission.”

He added that “three months ago, we decided that the Centre for Child Protection would be moved to Rome at the end of the pilot phase – that is, at the end of 2014, and this…