VATICAN CITY
Irish Times
Paddy Agnew
Sat, Feb 7, 2015
Sex abuse survivor Marie Collins has admitted to feeling frustrated by the slow pace set by the Holy See’s Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors, of which she is a member.
Ms Collins was speaking in Rome on Saturday on the sidelines of a Holy See press conference given by commission president Cardinal Sean O’Malley.
The commission, which was established in late 2013, has been having its first ever plenary meeting, attended by 17 members including French pyschologist Catherine Bonnet; former Polish prime minister and ambassador to the Holy See Hanna Suchocka; British psychiatrist Baroness Sheila Hollins; and two abuse survivors – Ms Collins and Englishman Peter Saunders.
Ms Collins said a key issue for her was the accountability of bishops.
“I have spent the last year feeling quite frustrated about the slowness,” she said. “I always knew that the church worked slowly but when you are on the inside it seems even slower. As a survivor, I am thinking of children out there today who are being abused…and accordingly, I would like to see things being moved along as fast as possible.”
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