New tribunal should look at bishops' past performance, says lay member of papal abuse commission
June 11, 2015
A lay member of the papal commission on sexual abuse says that a new Vatican tribunal, created to judge bishops accused of negligence, should examine past instances of abuse and negligence.
Marie Collins, speaking on Ireland’s RTE network, said that the Vatican tribunal would ensure that in responding to abuse complaints, a bishop can no longer “just behave as he wishes.”
“If he doesn’t have the right attitude to abuse, or if he doesn’t deal with a case properly and it means a child is not kept safe, then he will have to answer to his own higher authority as well as to civil authority,” Collins said.
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