Saturday, May 3, 2014

Pope's New Panel for Protection of Minors Meets; O'Malley: Church Must Be Made Safe for Children

The Roman Catholic Church failed to recognize the worldwide reach of clerical sexual abuse, Boston Cardinal Sean O'Malley said today (May 3, 2014) at a press conference in Rome, according to the Religion News Service website.

"Many don't see it as a problem of the universal church," said O'Malley who heads the Vatican's new commission for the protection of minors.

"In many people's minds it is an American problem, an Irish problem or a German problem," he said. "The church has to face it is everywhere in the world. There is so much denial. The church has to respond to make the church safe for children."

O'Malley -- whose Boston archdiocese was at the center of a wave of sex scandals that rocked the church a decade ago -- addressed the media after the panel's eight members held their first meeting in Rome.

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