After the publication of the overwhelming report on sexual violence in the Church, the leaders of the Conference of Religious and Religious and the Conference of Bishops, who hold their plenary assembly in November, must quickly prepare the answers to bring.
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“An earthquake”, “a hurricane”, “a concussion”: informed for a few days of the evaluation of the number of minors victims of sexual violence in the Church, the Catholic officials accused, Tuesday, October 5, After the publication of the report of the Independent Commission on Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church (CIASE). They are now preparing to focus on the “reception” of this ruthless picture of the functioning and attitude of the ecclesiastical hierarchy, for seventy years, facing the sexual assault committed by some of their ones and vulnerable persons. .
In total, according to the estimate of the Commission chaired by Jean-Marc Sauvé, 216,000 people today would have been attacked by a priest or a religious while they were minor. The number rises to 330,000 if the victims of laity are included related to the Catholic Church (catechists, school supervisors or youth movements, etc.).
“The extent of the phenomenon you describe is staggering” and the number of victims “relying and exceeds what we could assume”, commented Eric de Moulins-Beaufort, the President of the Conference of Bishops of France ( CEF), before receiving the report from Jean-Marc saved hands. “I express my shame, my fright, my determination to act” with the victims, many of whom were present in the room, he added by asking them “forgiveness”. “What to say, otherwise express a carnal shame, an absolute indignation,” said his counterpart of the Conference of Religious and Religious of France (Corref), Véronique Margron.
“Accompany priests and faithful”
The first speaking had been entrusted to a pugnaceous activist of the cause of the sexually attacked persons in the Church, François Deux, one of the founders of the association the released speech, created by victims of the Old chaplain Scout Bernard Paryt. “You have to pay for all these crimes,” he launched them by detaching each word. Facing the assessment drawn up by the report saved and its recommendations, “the best you would have to do: you shut up and start to execute with ardor and speed,” he advised the bishops, before evoking a hypothetical “Vatican Council III” intended to “refound the” Catholic “system.
At the end of the presentation of his report, Jean-Marc Sauvé symbolically “passed the witness to the Church”. It was, elliptically, a request for concrete, fast and large-scale reforms at the institution’s address. At first, many bishops planned to speak to the priests of their diocese, that the revelations of the report may destabilize, then to the faithful. “We must accompany the priests and the faithful so that they welcome this report and do not take it for an attack against the Church,” we summarized avenue de Breteuil, in Paris, at the headquarters of the CEF.
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