Abuse survivor and former papal advisor Marie Collins says she has no confidence in the newly-reconvened Vatican commission on clerical child sex abuse or in the Pope’s ability to deliver on the reforms it recommended.

Clerical abuse survivor and campaigner, Marie Collins, said she resigned from the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors because a group of people in the Vatican had been obstructing its work, including not following recommendations from the Pope.

Vatican commission member Marie Collins has said it's 'morally wrong' for child abusers to be protected through the seal of confession.

Pope Francis has appointed Irish abuse victim Marie Collins to the Vatican commission on protecting children from abuse.