The text, which “Le Monde” could consult, leaks while the Vatican reported the hearing of the Sovereign Pontiff with the personalities of the Independent Commission on Sexual Abuse in the Church.
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The concomitance of the facts has troubled the members of the Independent Commission on Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church (CIASE), which made public on 5 October a reporting report on sexors and major vulnerable sexual assaults in the Institution Since 1950. Wednesday, November 24, they learned by Eric de Moulins-Beaufort, President of the Conference of Bishops of France (CEF), that their hearing by Pope Francis, set at December 9, was “postponed” by the Vatican. “The reason given is the journey of the Holy Father to Cyprus and Greece confirmed this week and after which the pope will need rest”, he exposes to members of the Ciase, who says “sorry” that this meeting ” can not take place before Christmas “.
However, the reason for this agenda modification could be more complex than that advanced. First because the pontiff’s journey was officially announced by the Vatican as early as 5 November. Then, because a fifteen critical text of the work of CIASE was sent to Rome by members of the Catholic Academy of France, an institution bringing together Catholic intellectuals, founded in 2008. It constitutes a demolition in Rule of the balance sheet and recommendations produced by the twenty experts gathered in February 2019 by Jean-Marc Sauvé.
The critical analysis of the eight signatories of this text not made public, revealed by the cross and to which Le Monde has had access, is uniformly negative. The authors – Jean-Robert Armogath, Director of the Journal of Theology Communio, Philippe Capelle-Dumont, Professor of Philosophy at the Faculty of Theology of Strasbourg, the lawyer Jean-Luc Chartier, the historian Jean-Dominique Durand, the lawyer Yvonne Flour, the Philosopher Pierre MANENT, Hugues Portelli, Dean of the Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences of the Catholic Institute of Paris, and Emmanuel Tawil, Associate Professor in Paris-II – Contest the methodology that led the Inserm to Evaluate, for the CIASE, to 330,000 the number of people today who would have been sexually assaulted during their minority by a priest, a religious or a lay on ecclesial mission. The evaluation is 216,000 for the only priests and religious.
“questionable recommendations”
They oppose the evaluation of the INSERM the data obtained by the investigation of the team of the practice of the upper studies, which, on the basis of the counting of the archives, in particular ecclesiastics, results in a fork. between 4,832 and 27,808 victims. “One can wonder about the reasons that led the Commission to retain a quantification rather than another. (…) Scientific rigor has not presided over his work,” said the perpetrators of the note.
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