VATICAN CITY
Crux
By Inés San Martín
Vatican correspondent April 15, 2015
ROME — Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley of Boston made a pitch to Pope Francis and his team of cardinal advisors Wednesday on the need to hold bishops who fail to report sexual abuse accountable.
O’Malley’s talk came three days after two survivors of clerical sexual abuse met with him to protest the pope’s naming of a bishop in Chile linked to a notorious abuser.
According to a Vatican spokesman, O’Malley brought the issue to the attention of Pope Francis’ “G9” commission of cardinal advisers, a body whose meetings the pope attends. O’Malley is a member.
On Sunday, O’Malley, who also serves as president of the pope’s anti-abuse commission, met with four members of that commission, called the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors. It was established by Francis in 2013 to work on the prevention of clerical sex abuse. All four members — two of whom were victims of clerical sexual abuse — traveled to Rome specifically to press O’Malley about the Chile case.
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