Peter
Saunders, English advocate for sexually abused children and one of two
survivors on the Pope’s Commission for the Protection of Minors was given an
unrequested “leave of absence” by the Holy See.
Note that the Pope is the ruler of both the Vatican City State and the
Holy See. So it is really the Pope that
didn’t approve of Saunders.
Why? Maybe it is his role as head of the UK National
Association for People Abused in Childhood. Or, the Pope and his cohorts didn’t
like him saying that the Vatican system was “essentially corrupt and unwilling to
do the right thing”. Or, Pope Francis
didn’t like being criticized for appointing Chilean bishop Juan Barros to the
Diocese of Osorno when Barros is accused of covering up the sex abuse crimes of
Fr Fernando Karadima.