VATICAN CITY
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Vatican City, Oct 12, 2015 / 12:05 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- When it comes to protection against abuse, guidelines need to be implemented according to the customs of each country if they are to be effective, said one official of the Vatican’s commission for the protection of minors, which met in Rome over the weekend.
“The important thing about guidelines is that they’ve got to fit the country that they’re in, and the culture that they’re in,” said commission member Bill Kilgallon, director of the National Office for Professional Standards of the Catholic Church in New Zealand.
“What we don’t want to do is impose something that we don’t have the power to impose. But it won’t work if you try and impose something that’s the same for everybody,” he told CNA.
“Guidelines are important, but the implementation of the guidelines is more important,” he said.
Kilgallon was present at a briefing held following this month’s set of meetings of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors, which ran Oct. 9-11.
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