VATICAN CITY, Italy – The prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Cardinal William Joseph Levada, has given a lecture before the international symposium “Towards Healing and Renewal” which is held in Rome’s Gregorian University from February 6 to 9.

The said event gathers bishops and religious superiors from all over the globe which aims to re – launch the Church’s commitment to safeguard minors as well as people in need from abuse.

Cardinal Levada mentioned how Blessed John Paul II’s Motu Proprio “Sacramentorum sanctitatis tutela” explained as well as updated the list of canonical crimes, even including the sexual abuse of minors by clerics being one of the most serious crimes, or “graviora delicta”.