Australian Bishops publish New Church protocol for responding to sexual abuse
Australia’s Catholic Bishops Conference (ACBC) have published a new protocol for responding to sexual abuse. Consultation for new Australian Church protcol included engagement with victims and survivors and their advocates. (ACBC media blog Jan. 2021) A new...
Safeguarding Ministry and Inculturation
An online roundtable via webinar connected hundreds of people involved in safeguarding in the Church throughout the world, and focused on the perspective of inculturation.
Brazil launches Núcleo Lux Mundi
The Nucleo or Lux Mundi Center will coordinate and facilitate the setting up of diocesan commissions for the protection of children, adolescents and vulnerable people in the pastoral structures of the Catholic Church of Brazil
Balancing confidentiality, transparency and accountability
The ongoing work of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors (TutelaMinorum) continues to bring together experts from around the world, providing renewed attention to strengthening the Church’s response to the sexual abuse crisis faced in every part of...
India: Changing safeguarding culture, through schools
In India “we need to change the culture of silence in relation to sexual abuse of the minors and vulnerable adults”.