A conference at the Pontifical Gregorian University in February and an electronic database with best practices and research results are two more means the Church is offering to the global fight against sexual abuse.
The Feb. 6-8, 2012, conference, “Toward Healing and Renewal,” was presented at the Gregorian on Saturday.
Some 200 participants will analyze the pastoral, juridical and psychological aspects of abuse. The program will serve as an aid for episcopal conferences worldwide, which have been asked to turn into the Vatican by May 2012 their guidelines for dealing with sexual abuse.
Cardinal William Levada, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, will participate.
Other participants include Sheila Hollins, professor of psychiatry at St. George’s University in London and an independent member of the House of Lords, who accompanied Cardinal Cormack Murphy O’Connor on the apostolic visit to Ireland; Monsignor Steve Rosetti, who has created a program of residential treatment for clerics and religious; as well as Father Edenio Valle, creator of a similar program in São Paulo, Brazil.
ROME, JUNE 21, 2011 (Zenit.org)