Currents News Staff
Organizers for the Summit on Sexual Abuse today launched a website with resources for the meeting and also results of a survey from bishops from around the world with safeguarding guidelines they use in their diocese.
This website with background, resources and official Holy See documents was presented at a Vatican press conference, just days before the Summit on Sexual Abuse begins.
“The media’s commitment to this story has been extremely important and we would like to be your partners this week,” said organizer SR Bernadette Reis FSP.
Thus, the website provides a press kit with nine elements to help clarify any questions. There is also a timeline from 1984 until the present, and safeguarding guidelines and practices for the questionnaire, gathered from conferences around the world.
“A survey, a questionnaire was initiated among the conference participants, which is currently being evaluated by the Center for Child Protection at the Pontifical Gregorian University,” said FR. Hans Zollner of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors.
This questionnaire is only the first phase, they say, of a longer process they hope to continue, even after the Summit. It is the beginning of the Vatican’s evaluation and implementation of responsibility, accountability and transparency, the three themes for the meeting.
In order to find out more information about the Summit on Sexual Abuse, be sure to check out the website with bios of all the speakers who’ll be speaking and also a full program of these three and a half days in Rome.