“In Great Britain, in Australia, in the US, in Germany, society came to a point to confront this issue and then the Church also had to confront it—but this awareness and urgency to deal with it has not come about in this country [Italy] yet,” Father Hans Zollner, a member of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors, said amid calls for an independent investigation into the sexual abuse of minors in Italian Catholic institutions.
POPE FRANCIS TO CONFER NEW LAY MINISTRIES FOR FIRST TIME IN ST. PETER’S BASILICA
The Vatican has announced that Pope Francis will confer the ministries of catechist, lector, and acolyte upon lay men and
