During the audience, Bishop Gmür and Bishop Bonnemain presented “the measures that the Swiss bishops would like to take” again sexual abuse, according to the bishops’ conference.
In June, the Vatican asked Bishop Bonnemain to conduct a preliminary investigation into allegations that current and former Swiss bishops covered up the sexual abuse of minors.
Bishop Gmür, a proponent of women’s ordination, said in September that “the time is ripe to abolish celibacy.”