Two members of Pope Francis’s commission on child protection have clashed over the effectiveness of recent reforms.
The psychiatrist Baroness Hollins said that the Pope’s new procedures for hearing cases against bishops were an important step. But Peter Saunders, the founder of Napac (the National Association for People Abused in Childhood), said Francis had “done little on child abuse”.
The discussion, in the letters page of the Guardian, was prompted by a new book by the journalist Emiliano Fittipaldi, which strongly criticised the Pope’s record on combating child abuse.
