IRELAND
The Irish Catholic
by Greg Daly
March 17, 2016
A high-profile body set up to advise Pope Francis on preventing abuse is under threat unless the Vatican releases further funding, it has been claimed.
Baroness Nuala O’Loan has described as “very disturbing” claims that Vatican officials have been slow to release funding for the Pontifical Council for the Protection of Minors.
Irishwoman Marie Collins, a long time campaigner and survivor of abuse, who sits on the commission told The Irish Catholic that a lack of funding is hindering the work of the body.
Baroness O’Loan warned that “proper funding is the key to the ability of an organisation such as the commission to function.
“Many good initiatives have failed because they have been starved of the necessary funding,” Mrs O’Loan writes in The Irish Catholic this week.
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