Cardinal Pietro Parolin delivers a speech at the 4th International Safeguarding Conference on the prevention and protection against abuse in the Catholic Church, organized by the Institute of Anthropology at the Gregorian University in Rome.
Speaking at the 2024 International Safeguarding Conference, an annual event designed to help people work together to protect children and vulnerable adults from abuse, the Vatican Secretary of State noted that abuse is “an injustice that affects everyone, people with and without disabilities." Cardinal Pietro Parolin delivered his speech at the start of the 18-21 June event, dedicated, in particular, to “Safeguarding and Disability”. The conference, at the Pontifical Gregorian University, was organized by the University’s Institute of Anthropology, founded in 2012 as a Center for the Protection of Minors. A report by the World Health Organization estimates that 16% of the global population lives with “a significant disability, considering health, environmental, and personal conditions.” Thus, the programme of the conference, bringing together experts, both consecrated and lay, focuses on "the care of children and adults in the face of abuse, with particular attention to people.
