(ROME — 24 February 2019) The Vatican’s four-day “summit” on child protection ended on Sunday, with little to show. The three days of the meeting’s working sessions began with a call from Pope Francis for “concrete, effective measures” to combat the clerical sexual abuse of minors, and ended with what essentially came to more promises.
Following Sunday Mass in the Sala Regia, which had Archbishop Mark Coleridge of Brisbane as the homilist and saw Pope Francis delivered a closing address that was not universally well-received, the Vatican announced three measures:
