BOSTON (MA)
Boston Herald

September 11, 2018

By Mary Markos

Cardinal: My panel not charged to investigate

Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley, facing renewed scandal about the church’s handling of priest sex abuse cases, has doubled down on his position that his pontifical commission’s priority is preventing, not investigating abuse cases — drawing alarm and even mockery from critics who say that stance is “not credible.”

O’Malley, the president of the Vatican’s Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors, said in Rome through a communique that the “commission’s starting point is not to investigate abuses; our starting point is to prevent abuses.”