Vatican City, Feb 23, 2019 / 11:29 am (CNA).- Cardinal Reinhard Marx said Saturday that administration and transparency will be key to rebuilding the trustworthiness and credibility of the Church after its mishandling of past cases of clerical sexual abuse.

“A fully-functional Church administration is an important building block in the fight against abuse, and in dealing with abuse,” Cardinal Marx of Munich and Freising said in his keynote address at the Vatican sex abuse summit Feb. 23.