Posted on 10/23/2024 1:51:01 PM PDT by ConservativeMind
The pope’s safeguarding commission has announced the “imminent” release of its first annual report on the Church’s worldwide efforts to protect minors and vulnerable adults.
The Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors (PCPM) said Oct. 18 that the eagerly awaited document would “provide an assessment of the nature and effectiveness of safeguarding policies and procedures in the Church, and offer recommendations for continuous improvement.”
Why is the report significant? What do we know about its contents? And what should we look out for when it’s released?
The report is notable because it marks the first time a Vatican body has published an assessment of the state of safeguarding in the worldwide Catholic Church.
If you haven’t been following the Church’s child protection efforts closely, that might not sound like much of an achievement. Perhaps it even sounds like something the Church should have commissioned decades ago. But the Catholic Church — with its 114 national Latin Rite bishops’ conferences, 23 Eastern Catholic Churches, and 1.39 billion members — is an extremely complex institution. And its approach to record-keeping is, to put it gently, inconsistent.
Yet for PCPM’s members, the report’s significance extends beyond the facts and figures in its pages.
As Maud de Boer-Buquicchio, the chair of the pontifical commission’s annual report committee, put it in February, “the annual report is a tool for promoting a change of mindset, in the Church.”
How will it do this? The PCPM sees the report as the first of many. Over the years, the documents should help the commission and other interested parties to develop a better understanding of how safeguarding mechanisms are operating (or failing to operate) worldwide.
The PCPM hopes the inaugural report will increase pressure on Church entities to take a more consistent and transparent approach to child protection.
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Frank-ly speaking.......
C’mon Man!
Every single child that crossed the Southern border of the United States of America was personally vetted by Hussein/Biden Regime. Some were funneled to the White House for in depth ‘review.’ Those that did not ‘qualify’ for the in depth review were sent back to Mexico to enable other illegal trespassers to come across the border as ‘parents.’
Catholic charities is one of the largest child trafickjng groups out there. Eff the fake pope.
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