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The Journal
ABUSE SURVIVOR AND campaigner Marie Collins has resigned from her position on the Vatican’s commission for the protection of minors, criticising the lack of resources and powers granted to it.
The committee was set up to help improve measures within the Catholic church to protect children against sex abuse, and Collins joined the commission in 2014.
At the time, she told TheJournal.ie that it was vital that “voice of a survivor be in that discussion”.
In a statement to the National Catholic Reporter, Collins criticised inadequate structures around support staff, slowness of forward movement and cultural resistance within the church.
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