VATICAN CITY
Crux
By Inés San Martín
Vatican correspondent April 10, 2015
ROME — Two survivors of sexual abuse by Catholic clergy who now sit on a Vatican anti-abuse commission are traveling to Rome this weekend to meet with Boston Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley, and are hoping to see Pope Francis as well, to protest his recent appointment of a Chilean bishop linked to a notorious sex abuser.
A commission member speaking on background because he’s not authorized to discuss the matter confirmed to Crux that the meeting between O’Malley and the two victims who sit on the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors — Marie Collins of Ireland and Peter Saunders of the United Kingdom — will happen on Sunday.
Collins and Saunders will be joined by two other abuse survivors who are not part of the Vatican panel.
Saunders spoke on Friday about the upcoming meeting in an interview with the National Catholic Reporter.
“I’m hoping Francis will be there as well, because we’re going to meet [O’Malley] in the Domus Santa Marta about this Chilean bishop situation, which is really quite disturbing,” Saunders said.
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