VATICAN CITY
Crux
Inés San Martín March 3, 2017
VATICAN CORRESPONDENT
Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin said that the commission’s work will continue under the command of Boston’s Cardinal Sean O’Malley. The American prelate defined Marie Collin’s departure as a “blow to the commission,” but one which “increases our resolve to work harder for reform.”
ROME- According to Pope Francis’s right-hand man, a survivor of clerical sexual abuse who resigned earlier this week from a papal anti-abuse commission quit because she wanted to “shake the tree” in the Vatican.
Speaking to Crux, survivor Marie Collins had said some members of the Church’s governing body, known as the Roman Curia, have hindered and blocked the work being done by the commission. Talking to America magazine later on, she specifically named the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF).
The Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera quotes Italian Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican’s Secretary of State, as saying that there have been specific episodes which led Collins to take the step she did.
“For what I know, she has interpreted them as [lack of cooperation], and felt that the only way to act, even to ‘shake the tree’ a little, was to present her resignation,” Parolin said in Florence while attending a conference about Pope Francis’s apostolic exhortation Evangelii Gaudium.
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