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(OSV News) -- The Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes, one of the most famous sites of Marian apparitions worldwide, is facing an important decision: what to do with Father Marko Rupniks mosaics that decorate the façade of the Basilica of the Rosary. The mosaics, installed in 2008 for the 150th anniversary of the apparitions in Lourdes, depict the Luminous Mysteries of the Rosary. These mosaics were commissioned from the workshop of a renowned artist: Father Marko Rupnik, a Jesuit of Slovenian

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Cardinal Seán P. OMalley of Boston, president of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors, expressed his surprise, disappointment and disagreement with statements challenging the commissions effectiveness made by a prominent safeguarding expert who resigned from the advisory body. However, the commission has a plenary meeting scheduled in the next few weeks during which we can address these and other matters more fully as a group, the cardinal said in an

Fr Hans Zollner resigns from child protection body

Cardinal Seán P. O’Malley expressed his surprise, disappointment and disagreement with statements challenging the commission’s effectiveness made by Father Hans Zollner.

Jesuit Father Hans Zollner, an internationally-renowned expert in protecting children and vulnerable adults from clerical sex abuse,

The commission issued an updated statement on March 30 in which Cardinal O’Malley said he was ‘supplementing’ his earlier sentiments regarding Father Zollner’...

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Jesuit Father Hans Zollner, a leading safeguarding expert, resigned from the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors because of his concerns over how the advisory body had been working over the past years. There are urgent structural and practical issues, he said, that led me to disassociate myself from the papal commission. A member of the papal commission since its establishment in 2014, Father Zollner had submitted his resignation to Pope Francis, who ac

Whenever the pontiff eventually gets back to work, the fate of his Commission for the Protection of Minors will be waiting near the top of his to-do list.

Cardinal Sean O'Malley of Boston. / Daniel Ibanez/CNARome Newsroom, Mar 30, 2023 / 07:30 am (CNA).Cardinal Sean OMalley said Thursday he strongly disagrees with a critique of the Vaticans safeguarding commission by abuse expert and recently resigned member Father Hans Zollner.In a new statement March 30, OMalley, who heads the commission, said: "I am surprised, disappointed, and strongly disagree with [Zollners] publicly-issued assertions challenging the commissions effectiveness.&quot...

Pope Francis has accepted Jesuit Father Hans Zollner's request to no longer be a member of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors.