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

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.

Key pope advisor says quits Vatican abuse body over failures

There are urgent “structural and practical issues that led me to disassociate myself” from the papal commission of sex abuse, Father Hans Zollner said.

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