ROME/VATICAN CITY
La Croix International
March 1, 2019
By Robert Mickens
Bishops make more promises to get it right this time as the Church continues to implode
Organizers of the recent Vatican “summit” on the protection of minors, and a number of the bishops who attended it, are trying to assure the world that the four-day meeting brought about a “change of heart” in the Church’s leaders, especially those who — up to now — have underestimated the clergy sex abuse crisis.
In fact, before the Feb. 21-24 meeting even got started its chief planners indicated that a main goal would be to convince all the bishops in the world that the abuse of minors was not just a “Western” problem.
When it was all done and over, one those organizers, Jesuit Father Hans Zollner, said the highly-publicized event marked a “quantitative and qualitative leap” in the global Church’s response to abuse. He called it an important new step on the slow and painful journey of “turning things around.
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