Canon law should be re-written to institute a global zero-tolerance policy against priests who commit sexual abuse, a clerical abuse survivor told attendees at the World Meeting of Families.
Marie Collins, a former member of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors, spoke on Aug. 24 as part of a panel titled “Safeguarding Children and Vulnerable Adults.”
Collins appeared alongside Baroness Sheila Hollins, another former member of the Pontifical Commission of Minors; Barbara Thorp, a social worker and former head of the Office for Pastoral Support and Child Protection for the Archdiocese of Boston; and Prof. Gabriel Dy-Liacco, a current member of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors and a psychologist who has treated priests and abuse survivors.
