Teresa Kettelkamp Archives

February abuse summit will have to navigate waters of a global church

News Analysis
Nov 25, 2018

A major challenge the planning committee for Pope Francis’s Feb. 21-24 summit on sex abuse will face is taking account of differing instincts inside a global Church.

Anti-abuse expert says Pope can hammer home it’s everyone’s problem

Vatican
Nov 25, 2018

A leading expert in the field of child protection has said a global summit of bishops addressing the issue in February will force prelates to accept the problem as a global phenomenon happening on their own turf, and voiced hope that there will be concrete follow-up to any proposals made.

Papal adviser feels ‘Infuriated and embarrassed’ over latest abuse revelations

WMF Ireland
Aug 23, 2018

Teresa Kettelkamp, a former head of the US bishops’ Child Protection Office and a member of the Vatican’s Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors, said it’s hard to hold your head high as a leader in the Church “seeing all the failures.”

Experts say threats to child safety have gone viral in digital age

WMF Ireland
Aug 23, 2018

In a 21st century digital world, children face exponentially greater risks of exploitation and abuse, said a panel on Wednesday during the Vatican-sponsored World Meeting of Families.

Two-year process to revise bishops’ protection charter nears completion

Catholic News Service, Church in the US
Jun 4, 2018

The chair of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on the Protection of Children and Young People said a two-year project to revise the charter that guides the U.S. Church in protecting minors from sexual abuse is nearly ready to be presented to the full body of bishops.

Member of Pope’s anti-abuse panel insists, ‘The Church is not failing’

Interviews, Vatican
Feb 23, 2018

Teresa Kettelkamp, a former staffer for the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors and now a full member, says of the anti-abuse fight, “The Church is not failing on this issue, the Church is aggressively addressing it … People who want things to change faster are not realistic about how things change.”