“In Great Britain, in Australia, in the US, in Germany, society came to a point to confront this issue and then the Church also had to confront it—but this awareness and urgency to deal with it has not come about in this country [Italy] yet,” Father Hans Zollner, a member of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors, said amid calls for an independent investigation into the sexual abuse of minors in Italian Catholic institutions.