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April 3, 2019

Church urged to take lead in protecting youth online

Fr. Hans Zollner addresses a symposium at Regis College March 28 on the scope of problems with children and online porn.

Children are in danger and Jesuit Fr. Hans Zollner believes the Catholic Church is uniquely placed to protect them.

Published in Canada
March 15, 2019

Church must follow, accept local laws on abuse, Fr. Hans Zollner says

Jesuit Father Hans Zollner, president of the Centre for Child Protection at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, prays at the start of the third day of the meeting on the protection of minors in the church at the Vatican Feb. 23, 2019.
VATICAN – The Catholic Church must respect the law and accept court decisions regarding clerical sexual abuse and its cover-up, said Jesuit Father Hans Zollner, a leading expert in child protection.
Published in International
February 13, 2019

Vatican abuse summit to have realistic goals, address not just 'concrete cases'

Jesuit Father Hans Zollner, a professor of psychology and president of the Centre for Child Protection at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, leads a briefing for journalists in Rome Feb. 12, 2019. The briefing was to prepare for the Feb. 21-24 Vatican meeting on the protection of minors in the church. Father Zollner is on the organizing committee for the meeting.
VATICAN – All eyes and ears will be on the Vatican during an unprecedented gathering Feb. 21-24 to discuss the protection of minors in the Catholic Church.
Published in International
January 10, 2019

Global response to abuse: Work already underway, Vatican abuse expert says

Jesuit Father Hans Zollner, professor of psychology and president of the Center for Child Protection at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, attends a seminar on safeguarding children at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome in this March 23, 2017, file photo.
VATICAN – By summoning leaders of the world's bishops' conferences and top representatives of religious orders to the Vatican in February to address the abuse crisis and the protection of minors, Pope Francis is sending the message that the need for safeguarding is a global issue.
Published in International
November 23, 2018

February meeting on abuse at Vatican to have 'synodal dimension'

Jesuit Father Hans Zollner, president of the Center for Child Protection, speaks in 2015 at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome during a news conference officially launching the Center for Child Protection in Rome.
VATICAN – The approach of Pope Francis’ meeting of bishops in February, on the topic of abuse prevention in the Church, will reflect the synodal journey, Fr. Hans Zollner told Vatican Media Friday.
Published in International
September 25, 2018

Clergy caught in ‘siege mentality,’ says head of Vatican's expert on sex abuse

esuit Father Hans Zollner, president of the Center for Child Protection, speaks in 2015 at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome during a news conference officially launching the Center for Child Protection in Rome.

ROME – The Catholic Church is on trial and what happens next will define its place in the world to come, said one of the Vatican’s foremost experts on clergy sex abuse.

Published in International