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From left, Monsignior Luis Herrera, Cardinal Sean Patrick O' Malley, jurist Maud de Boer-Buquicchio and clergy sex abuse survivor and victim's advocate Juan Carlos Cruz, pose for a photo at the end of a press conference to present the Vatican's first Annual Global Report on Minors Protection at the Vatican press center, Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Pope’s child protection board urges transparency from Vatican sex abuse office and compensation

By Nicole Winfield - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 24, 2018 file photo, clergy sex abuse survivor and victim's advocate Juan Carlos Cruz, from Chile, is interviewed by The Associated Press, outside the Vatican's St. Peter's Square, in Rome, Tuesday, April 24, 2018. Pope Francis on Wednesday, March 24, 2021 named Cruz, who helped uncover a clerical sex abuse scandal, to a Vatican commission which advises the pontiff on how to protect children from pedophile clergy. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, file)

Pope taps Chilean sex abuse whistleblower for Vatican panel

By FRANCES D'EMILIO - Associated Press

FILE - In this May 3, 2014 file photo, Cardinal Sean O'Malley, the archbishop of Boston, right, and Marie Collins attend a press conference at the Vatican. Collins, an Irish woman who was sexually abused by clergy, has quit in frustration her post on a Vatican commission advising Pope Francis about how to fight abuse of minors, Wednesday, March 1, 2017. (AP Photo/Riccardo De Luca)

Abuse survivor quits pope’s panel over Vatican stonewall

By FRANCES D'EMILIO - Associated Press

Pope Francis waves to faithful during his weekly general audience, in St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican in this May 20, 2015, file photo. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, File)

Pope OKs reforms targeting pedophilia, rape

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Cardinal Sean O'Malley blesses a family after Mass, Tuesday, April 1, 2014, along the international border wall in Nogales, Ariz. O'Malley was several Bishops who serve along the U.S./Mexico border were visiting the border town to bring awareness to immigration reform and to remember those who have died trying to cross the border in years past. (AP Photo/Matt York)

Boston priest named secretary of Vatican commission to protect minors

By Elise Harris - Catholic News Agency