NEW ZEALAND
The Tablet
13 August 2014 by Katherine Backler
The Vatican’s lead prosecutor on abuse cases has praised the media for keeping sex abuse cases in the public eye.
Mgr Robert Oliver, Promoter of Justice for the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, told New Zealand’s Sunday Star-Times: “It’s hard for any group over time to keep up the kind of energy that’s needed to do this work. What the media has been doing was to keep that energy up.”
Mgr Oliver said that the Church had “much to seek reconciliation for … particularly in not listening to victims.”
He spoke of how meeting survivors of sex abuse reminds him of the importance of his work. “You realise what this does to people… how deeply harmed they are.”
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