Less than 20 years ago, Marie Collins’s parish
priest in Dublin warned the congregation at Mass that her story of abuse
by a priest was not to be believed. Now she advises Pope Francis on child protection and is a member of the only Vatican commission with direct access to him.
This Dublin abuse survivor got the invitation to join
the Vatican Commission for the Protection of Minors last year. She
believes it arose from a 2012 Vatican symposium on child protection she
went to.