IRELAND
Irish Independent
NICOLA ANDERSON – UPDATED 24 MARCH 2014
CLERICAL abuse survivor Marie Collins has vowed to use her position on the Vatican commission on child protection to press for bishops to be sanctioned if they fail to implement church rules.
The Dublin mother of one said that she would speak out as she had always done and would not be “overawed” by high-ranking titles when she attends the first meeting of the commission in the Vatican next month.
Ms Collins – who was abused by a chaplain while ill in hospital at the age of 13 back in the 1960s – became aware that she had been appointed to the commission last Friday when she received a call from a high-ranking official in the Vatican.
“It was someone who kicked off the call with: ‘I’m calling on behalf of His holiness’ – I picked myself up off the floor. It was a huge surprise,” Marie, inset, told the Irish Independent.
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