LONDON (ENGLAND)
Catholic News Service via The Tablet
February 6, 2020
By Gia Myers
Up to 200 people gathered at the conference to broaden their understanding of the global sex abuse crisis.
The Church has been damaged by the sexual abuse crisis, but people have been damaged more, according to a leading Vatican safeguarding expert.
Fr Hans Zollner SJ, a member on the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors, told a conference in the US: “Much damage has been done to the church” due to clergy sexual abuse, said Fr Zollner, “but more damage has been done to human beings.” In responding to this crisis, “many people are engaged in the same mission: a safer church and a safer world,” he said.
Almost 200 people filled the Driscoll Hall Auditorium at the Augustinian Catholic University of Villanova in Pennsylvania, looking to deepen their understanding about global perspectives on the sexual abuse crisis in the Catholic Church.
The evening event was the third conference in the four-part series of discussions with Catholic theologians hosted by Villanova to examine the abuse crisis. It featured Fr Zollner, a licensed German psychologist and psychotherapist with a doctorate in theology and one of the church’s leading experts in the area of safeguarding minors.
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