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(Vatican Radio) The Statutes for the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors were made public on Friday. They were approved by Pope Francis on April 21st, and will be in effect “ad experimentum” for three years.
The Commission was officially instituted last year, and is headed by Cardinal Seán O’Malley, O.F.M. Cap., the Archbishop of Boston.
The text of the statutes is below
♦ Statutes of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors
Statutes
Chirograph of the Holy Father Francis for the Institution of a Pontifical Commission for the Protection of minors (22 March 2014)
On 21 April the Cardinal Secretary of State approved by mandate of the Supreme Pontiff, ad experimentum for three years, the Statute of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors, the draft of which had been presented for approval by Cardinal Seán O’Malley, O.F.M. Cap., President of the same Commission.
The Statutes will then be published in the Italian original and in English.
To ensure the completeness of the documentation, the Chirograph of 22 March 2014, by which the Pope officially instituted the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors, will be published contemporaneously.
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