VATICAN CITY
Crux
By Inés San Martín
Vatican correspondent November 19, 2014
ROME — Almost a year after the Vatican announced plans for a new papal commission to lead the charge for reform on the Church’s child sexual abuse scandals, the chief of staff for the group says it’s now hitting its stride.
“We’re talking about changing Catholic structures, collecting what we’ve done in the past 12 years,” said the Rev. Robert Oliver, referring to reforms adopted since the abuse scandals erupted in the United States in 2002.
The commission, Oliver said, wants to lead the universal Church in “learning from the best practices as well as our mistakes, sharing this knowledge with those who need it, and discussing how we can work to make sure that our children will be safer.”
Oliver, a former advisor to Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley of Boston on sexual abuse matters, is Secretary of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors announced last December. He sat down for an exclusive interview with Crux at the commission’s new Vatican headquarters.
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