FILE PHOTO: Father Hans Zollner (R), President of the Centre for Child Protection, attend the World Congress "Child Dignity in the Digital World" at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, Italy October 3, 2017. REUTERS/Tony Gentile/File Photo
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - A former top Vatican official who dealt with clergy sexual abuse issues joined victims on Monday in urging Pope Francis to enact a zero-tolerance law throughout the global Catholic church so any cleric found guilty of abuse would be removed from ministry.
Rev. Hans Zollner, a German Jesuit priest who resigned in frustration from the pope's clergy abuse commission in 2022, was part of a press conference in Rome with Ending Clergy Abuse, an international group of victims.
