IRELAND
The Irish Catholic
by Greg Daly
March 9, 2017
Leading child protection campaigner Marie Collins has challenged claims by the head of the Vatican department responsible for dealing with allegations of clerical abuse.
Cardinal Gerhard Müller, who heads the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF), had rejected claims by Mrs Collins that members of the CDF had obstructed proposals for reform recommended by the Vatican’s child protection commission, from which Mrs Collins resigned last month.
Interviewed by the Italian newspaper Corriere della Serra, Cardinal Müller rejected suggestions that the congregation has resisted the work of the commission, saying: “One of our collaborators is part of it. I can affirm that in these last years there’s been permanent contact.”
Mrs Collins, however, told The Irish Catholic it has been almost two years since any member of the CDF has been involved with the commission. “There’s no member of the CDF on the commission,” she said, continuing, “There hasn’t been for nearly two years. There was a member who stopped attending immediately after the accountability tribunal was announced, and then officially resigned last year.”
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