The Vatican has announced it will soon issue a child protection policy and guidelines for preventing sexual abuse of minors for Vatican City State.
The Associated Press reported last year that Vatican City, the headquarters of the global Catholic Church, had no such policy.
The Rev. Federico Lombardi, the moderator of Pope Francis’ summit on abuse prevention, announced at the summit’s end Sunday that the Vatican in the near future would issue a new law covering the Roman Curia, or bureaucracy, and be in effect in Vatican City.
The lack of a policy was significant, since the Holy See had tasked bishops conferences around the world in 2011 with creating written child protection guidelines. It had also told the United Nations in 2014 that a written child protection policy was in the works.
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