MALTA
Malta Today
Matthew Vella
An abuse survivor and campaigner against priestly sex abuse said Maltese bishop Charles Scicluna should be heading the new Vatican commission on safeguarding children and caring for abuse victims.
“Maltese Bishop Charles Scicluna… has experience of handling abuse cases from around the world from his time as Promoter of Justice in the Vatican,” Marie Collins told Catholic newspaper The Tablet.
“During that time he showed a strong commitment to convincing bishops that they must deal properly with cases of abuse in their diocese. I believe he would bring this commitment to the commission.”
Scicluna was the face of the Vatican’s fight against clerical sex abuse, before being appointed auxiliary bishop in Malta.
Collins said the new Vatican commission set up by Pope Francis should have been set up ten years ago when clerical child sexual abuse crisis “was not just isolated to one or two countries and it was not going to go away.”
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