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Dear Global Safeguarding Partners,
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As we approach the half year mark, TutelaMinorum would like to thank all of our partners in the Global Safeguarding Community engaged over the past six months in organizing and sponsoring events and actives to promote the protection of minors and vulnerable persons from abuse.
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Many of these initiatives are often months or years in the making, and although the events themselves take place over a short period of time, their impact on creating and spreading a culture of safeguarding awareness is incalculable.
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In May alone TutelaMinorum members and partners were engaged in the following activities:
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- To reflect upon the Italian National Day against Paedophilia, on May 5 Telefono Azzurro, led by Prof. Ernesto Caffo, hosted an international interdisciplinary discussion regarding the rise of sexual abuse, both on and offline, during the Covid-19 Pandemic. Among other international leaders and institutions invited to this event, TutelaMinorum President, Cardinal Sean O’ Malley, together with founding members Marie Collins, Prof. Baroness Shelia Hollins and Fr. Hans Zollner SJ gave presentations.
- This past month, the Pontifical Gregorian University’s Centre for Child Protection more formally announced its transformation into the “The Institute of Anthropology, Interdisciplinary Studies on Human Dignity and Care”, which will take effect starting on September 1, 2021. CCP Founding President Fr. Hans Zollner, personally shared his enthusiasm for this transition with his fellow TutelaMinorum members as it will allow its Institute’s experts to take a more integrative and interdisciplinary approach to further fostering the protection and care of every person.
- The International Safeguarding Conference recently initiated its 2021 conference series on Prevention Post Pandemic. With the goal of uniting safeguarding practitioners within the Church to collaborate on new strategies for confronting the evolving Safeguarding situation given the new global circumstances imposed by the ongoing pandemic, this conference consists of 5 separate sessions which started on May 18 and which will extend to the beginning of July.
- On Tuesday May 25, Telefono Azzurro, in collaboration with the Special Commissioner of the Government for Missing Persons held another event, this time focused on the phenomenon of missing children in Italy, Europe and the world.
- On May 12, TutelaMinorum member Juan Carlos Cruz, together with Sr. Maria Rosaura González Casas, STJ presented the 5th instalment in the Safe Environments in Religious Life formation series offered by the Joint Commission for the Care of the Person to Superiors General and their safeguarding delegates. This instalment focused on Safe environments formation: The consequence of negligence in offering safe environments. Proceedings from the series will be made available in a joint UISG/USG publication.
- On May 15, Pope Francis urged families, educational and public institutions to tackle with renewed determination the scourge of child abuse, paedophilia and child pornography, describing them as “psychological murder”. “Continue your work without hesitation, paying particular attention to the educational aspect, in order to form a firm conscience in people and eradicate the culture of abuse and exploitation,” the Pope told some 50 members of the Meter Association. The group founded in Sicily, Italy, in 1989 by Father Fortunato Di Noto, has been championing the rights of children especially against child pornography and paedophilia.
- On May 26, The Catholic University of America’s Catholic Project hosted a conversation with canonists to pose the question of the current status of Vos estis lux mundi two years after its promulgation. Outgoing Secretary of TutelaMinorum, Monsignor Robert Oliver, was among the experts invited to present at this discussion.
- And finally, bringing May to an end, the Holy See Press Office have announced that the amendments to Book VI of the Code of Canon Law will be presented on Monday May 31. The amendments will be presented to press by Archbishop Filippo Iannone, O.Carm., President of the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts; and Bishop Juan Ignacio Arrieta Ochoa de Chinchetru, secretary of the same Pontifical Council. The press conference will be broadcast via live streaming in the original language on the Vatican News YouTube channel.
More information and details on all of these events and initiatives can be found on our website www.tutelaminorum.org .
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As always, we sincerely express our thanks for your dedication and commitment to sharing and extending the efforts of our Global Safeguarding Community to your corners of the world!
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Vos Estis: Two Years Later, a Conversation with Canonists
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Vos estis lux mundi was promulgated in May 2019 to address the issue of bishops' accountability for clergy sexual abuse. It was approved "ad experimentum" for three years. Two years in, how is it going?
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Telefono Azzurro Reflects Upon the International Day of Missing Children
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On Tuesday, May 25, on the occasion of the International Missing Children's Day, Telefono Azzurro and the Special Commissioner of the Government for Missing Persons will organize a meeting on the theme of missing children in Italy, Europe and the world.
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The Centre for Child Protection becomes an Institute
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The Pontifical Gregorian University’s Centre for Child Protection takes on a new guise and institutional framework, intensifying its commitment to the work of protecting minors and vulnerable people from sexual abuse.
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Pope: child abuse is a kind of ＂psychological murder＂
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Pope Francis on Saturday urged families, educational and public institutions to tackle with renewed determination the scourge of child abuse, paedophilia and child pornography, describing them as "psychological murder".
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PONTIFICAL COMMISSION FOR THE PROTECTION OF MINORS
Largo Giovanni Paolo II | 00120 – Vatican City State
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