VATICAN CITY
NPR
March 1, 2017
CAMILA DOMONOSKE
A survivor of abuse has resigned from Pope Francis’ panel on clerical sex abuse, citing “shameful” resistance within the Vatican to the group’s efforts to protect children.
Marie Collins, who was abused by a priest as a child, was the only survivor active on the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors. Another high-profile survivor and advocate, who expressed frustration with the slow pace of change, took a leave of absence from the commission last year.
Collins says she is leaving the panel because, as she told The Telegraph, “there are people in the Vatican who do not want to change or understand the need to change. … They are not cooperating.”
She says it was “soul-destroying” to face the Vatican’s resistance on the issue.
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