The Church needs to support missionary dioceses with expertise to implement the sex abuse prevention protocols mandated by the Pope, said Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle.
“Maybe in established churches, it is easier for them to form the committees, the commissions, because then you have trained people,” Tagle said in an interview with a television channel.
“And this is where we need to assist the young churches because some of them are just developing … They need psychologists. They need canon lawyers.”
He added: “And this is where also the universal Church would help each other. Those with expertise can help form the human resources in other parts of the world.”
Tagle said that he had seen the need to support developing dioceses without as many resources after his dicastery followed up and asked bishops’ conferences to submit what they had prepared in response to Pope Francis’ mandate to start writing protocols in line with what was required by the motu proprio Vos estis lux mundi.