Pope Leo XIV approves new statutes for child protection commission
The trial statutes give the commission a clearer mandate for reporting systems, survivor support and annual safeguards reviews while keeping its advisory role.
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What’s in the Vatican’s child protection commission’s new statutes?
The Vatican published the revised statutes of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors on Saturday.St. Peter’s Basilica, seen from Rome’s via San Lucio. Credit: Livioandronico2013/wikimedia CC BY-SA 4.0.The document, issued only in Italian on June 13, replaces statutes released in 2015, a year after Pope Francis established the Vatican safeguarding body. The new statutes have been approved for a five year experimental period, after…
VATICAN CITY- The Vatican published on Saturday the updated statutes of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors, dedicated to the fight against abuses within the Church, which strengthen its supervisory capacity and allow it to directly raise assessments of local dioceses to the Holy See.The new regulations, approved ‘ad experimentum’ by Leo XIV on May 20, replaces the 2015 statute promoted by Pope Francis, founder of the commissi…
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