The President and Vice-Presidents of the Conference of the Bishops of France were received by François, Monday, December 13, in particular to evoke the consequence of the investigation of the Independent Commission on Sexual Abuse in the Church.
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A new battle is engaged at the summit of the Catholic Church around the question of the fight against sexual violence on minors. It has engaged in publication in France on 5 October, the terrible report of the Independent Commission on Sexual Abuse in the Church (CIASE), which estimated at 216,000 the number of people today having been Assacted by a priest or a religious since 1950, 330,000 if the laity on ecclesial mission is added to these authors. She went up after the decisions taken in early November, by the French bishops and religious, who recognized an “institutional responsibility” in the occurrence of abuse and a “systemic dimension”, and who set up a mechanism of Recognition and repair for victims.
This struggle opposes the supporters of an action against sexual violence which is up to the dramatic statement of the Commission chaired by Jean-Marc saved, and those who accuse the diagnosis of being drawn up and the remedies. to be likely to unbend the Church. She has been waiting for a few weeks French Catholicism as the little world of the Vatican. From which side will Pope Francis?
It is in this context that the President of the Conference of Bishops of France (CEF), Eric de Moulins-Beaufort, and his two Vice-Presidents, Dominique Blanchet and Olivier Leborgne, were received for an hour fifteen by The Pontiff in Rome, Monday, December 13th. Like every year, they came to account for the activity of the French episcopate and in particular the decisions taken at its plenary assembly of November. The meeting was widely devoted to the report of the CIASE and the decisions taken in Lourdes concerning the fight against sexual violence on vulnerable minors and major.
The Archbishop of Reims, which has been an essential player in convincing some reluctant French bishops to vote the November resolutions, has been confident in the support of François to their approach. “The Holy Father has encouraged us a lot and thanked,” he said at a press briefing in Rome. He emphasized the dignity of our attitude and how to take into account the report of the CIASE. ( …) We felt it very concerned and very determined to do all the necessary work. “” I have personally never doubted [the] desire [of the Pope] that the Church sort of an ambiguous attitude on these cases “Sexual abuse,” he added.
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