Whatever the merits of the decision, the optics of removing one of the
two survivors of clerical sexual abuse serving on the Holy See’s
Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors were not good.
Peter Saunders, the founder of the U.K.-based National Association for People Abused in Childhood, was given a leave of absence following a 15-to-0 vote of no confidence by the 17-member commission (with one abstention) at a meeting in Rome on Feb. 6.
http://americamagazine.org/issue/abuse-commission-shake
Peter Saunders, the founder of the U.K.-based National Association for People Abused in Childhood, was given a leave of absence following a 15-to-0 vote of no confidence by the 17-member commission (with one abstention) at a meeting in Rome on Feb. 6.
http://americamagazine.org/issue/abuse-commission-shake
