ROME
National Catholic Reporter
Joshua J. McElwee | Feb. 17, 2015
ROME
A Vatican-connected academic institute that works to educate seminarians, priests and laypeople on preventing sexual abuse has moved operations from Germany to Rome in an effort to influence the church’s work on the issue globally.
The Centre for Child Protection, an institute that was first opened in Munich in 2012 and conducts e-learning programs and interdisciplinary research on abuse prevention, is now located at the Jesuit-run Pontifical Gregorian University.
Announcing the move at a press conference Monday at the Gregorian, Boston Cardinal Sean O’Malley said the move was a “very important contribution” for the center and its staff “to be important players in the universal church.”
O’Malley, who is leading the new papal commission preventing clergy sexual abuse, said while the center is not formally backed by the Vatican, he and several members of his commission are closely following its work and hoping it can be part of several new initiatives to “help make a difference” in preventing abuse.
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