Jesuit and abuse expert Hans Zollner sees the sexual abuse of nuns as “a burning issue.” At a press conference held by the Catholic charity Missio Aachen on Friday, Zollner said that, unlike ten years ago, the issue can now be discussed openly in many countries. Missio has contributed to ensuring that today, the discussion…
A long-suppressed issue: Jesuit Hans Zollner sees initial successes in the fight against abuse of nuns
Then-Bishop Robert Francis Prevost of Chiclayo (second from left) -- now Pope Leo XIV -- is pictured with Jesuit Father Hans Zollner (center), director of the Institute of Anthropology at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, and now-Cardinal Carlos Castillo Mattasoglio of Lima, in a January 2020 photograph at the Pontifical Catholic University in Lima, Peru. Father Zollner was invited by the Peruvian bishops' conference to administer a safeguarding workshop and related conferences. (OSV News photo/courtesy Father Hans Zollner)

