VATICAN CITY
Latin Post
By Olivia Demarinis (staff@latinpost.com)
With orders from the Vatican, two priests from the United States have been placed in key roles in the Catholic Church’s anti-abuse commission. The appointments of the priests, Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley and Rev. Robert Oliver, came from Pope Francis himself.
O’Malley, a veteran of the Boston archdiocese, was named the president of the new commission, which is formally called the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors and was created in December 2013 following numerous child sexual abuse scandals. Before this announcement, the Vatican had referred to O’Malley’s role only as a member of the commission, but sources at the Crux said he was instrumental in organizing the group’s activities.
Oliver has ties to the Chicago area but worked as an advisor to O’Malley in Boston on abuse-crisis related issues until 2012.Since then he has been doing work in the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. He has now been named the Secretary of the anti-abuse commission.
During a phone interview, Oliver said he was proud of the church’s steps to fighting against abuse.
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