Angelus News | March 13, 2020 | Vol. 5 No. 10
With hundreds of streaming options available today, Catholic families are having a hard time making sure their media content stays clean. Angelus asked Sophia Martinson to survey the best help out there for parents. She reports on her results beginning on Page 10.
With hundreds of streaming options available today, Catholic families are having a hard time making sure their media content stays clean. Angelus asked Sophia Martinson to survey the best help out there for parents. She reports on her results beginning on Page 10.
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Missing a mother’s touch<br />
Women offer a unique perspective<br />
and urgency to the abuse crisis.<br />
Why aren’t they on the<br />
Vatican’s new task force?<br />
BY INÉS SAN MARTÍN / ANGELUS<br />
ROME — Recently, the Vatican<br />
announced Pope Francis has<br />
created a task force to help bishops’<br />
conferences around the world address<br />
the clerical sex abuse crisis. The<br />
lineup is impressive, but much like a<br />
high-profile February 2019 summit on<br />
child protection, laypeople — women<br />
in particular — are the missing link.<br />
The eight-man lineup for the task<br />
force includes seven clerics, two of<br />
whom are regarded by all sides as part<br />
of the solution to the abuse crisis:<br />
Maltese Archbishop Charles Scicluna,<br />
once the Vatican’s top prosecutor on<br />
priestly abuse of minors; and German<br />
Father Hans Zollner, SJ, a member of<br />
the Pontifical Commission for the Protection<br />
of Minors and director of the<br />
Center for Child Protection of Rome’s<br />
Gregorian University.<br />
The list also includes the Vatican’s<br />
version of a chief of staff, Venezuelan<br />
Archbishop Edgar Peña Parra; Cardinal<br />
Blase Cupich of Chicago; Cardinal<br />
Oswald Gracias of Mumbai, who<br />
sits on the council of cardinals that advises<br />
the pope on reform of the Roman<br />
Curia; Spanish Bishop Juan Ignacio<br />
Arrieta of the Pontifical Council for<br />
Legislative Texts; and Father Federico<br />
Lombardi, SJ, former papal spokesman<br />
for both Pope Benedict XVI and Pope<br />
Francis and the moderator of last year’s<br />
summit.<br />
Last but not least is layman Andrew<br />
Azzopardi, who teaches in the Department<br />
of Youth and Community Studies<br />
at the University of Malta and also<br />
serves on the Safeguarding Commission<br />
of the Ecclesiastical Province of<br />
Malta, making him a protégé of Archbishop<br />
Scicluna. He’s been described<br />
to Crux as a “highly competent man,”<br />
and is the father of three children.<br />
At first glance, there’s little to object<br />
to about the group.<br />
<strong>No</strong>t one of the members of the task<br />
20 • ANGELUS • <strong>March</strong> <strong>13</strong>, <strong>2020</strong>