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The Tablet

14 March 2017 | by Christopher Lamb

Prefect of Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith claimed Collins claim was a ‘cliche’ he ‘couldn’t understand’

Marie Collins dismisses Cardinal Muller’s claim he didn’t resist work of child protection commission

A clerical sexual abuse survivor has launched a stinging rebuke to a cardinal who denied his department resisted the work of a papal child protection commission.

Marie Collins resigned from Pope Francis’ safeguarding body in frustration at what she described as resistance from inside the Vatican to their work, with the main opposition coming from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF).

In response Cardinal Gerhard Muller, the prefect of the congregation, hit back in an interview with Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera saying it was a “cliche” to talk of resistance in the Roman Curia, that he “couldn’t understand” the claim about his department…