Pope Francis called France’s Catholics to become responsible for the security of the church against the background of the scandal caused by the publication of the report on systematic violence in the French Catholic Church. Reports about it Deutsche Welle.
Pontiff stated that he was saddened by the actions of the French clergy, who participated in violence against children. He expressed shame for the inability of the church to put victims of crime into the center of his concerns.
Head of Catholics commented on the report and pointed to the need for the clergy to continue to work in order to prevent the repetition of the like. Dad offered his support to French priests so that they sustain “it is heavy, but healthy test.”
previously became known that members of the Catholic clergy in France for 70 years have been abused more than 200 thousand children and urged the victims to keep silence for the sake of protection for the reputation of church institutions. According to the data, from 1950 to 2020, more than three thousand rapists from 115 thousand priests and other priests worked in the French Catholic Church.