Pope Appoints Two US Priests to Key Posts on Sex Abuse Reform
A veteran Boston Catholic priest is one of two clerics named to key Vatican roles in Pope Francis’s clean-up efforts in the Church’s child sexual abuse scandals, Crux reports .
Fr. Robert Oliver, who served as a key advisor to Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley of Boston on issues related to the abuse crisis until 2012, has been named to the new position of Secretary to the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors.
Fr. Robert Geisinger, a Chicago Jesuit, was named to fill the position vacated by Oliver, Promoter of Justice in the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Crux reported.
Read the full Crux article here.
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