The dispute between an abuse survivor who resigned from Pope Francis’s sex abuse advisory commission and a major Vatican body intensified last week.
Marie Collins resigned from the commission in protest at the “unacceptable” lack of cooperation from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF), which processes canonical cases against abusive priests.
She has challenged Cardinal Gerhard Müller, prefect of the CDF, who had claimed that his congregation had cooperated with the commission.
In a letter in the National Catholic Reporter she said the CDF had ignored or hindered proposals from the commission that had been approved by the Pope.
