The ciase, which had revealed in October 2021 the extent of sexual abuse committed by priests and religious, contradicts the attacks on the methodology and conclusions of its report.
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Ciase counter-attack. The site of the Independent Commission on Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church (Ciase) made public, Wednesday 9 February, three texts aimed at answering point by point to the criticisms made by members of the Catholic Academy of France against the conclusions of his Report . This, written at the request of the episcopate and religious congregations, had been published on October 5, 2021. He had revealed the extent of pedocinality in the clergy and made recommendations to prevent it.
One month later, eight leaders of the Catholic Academy of France – an institution bringing together personalities from various horizons – had transmitted to the Vatican a text to the vitriol against the conclusions of the CIASE. Neither the analyzes nor the recommendations found through their eyes. The signatories accused the Commission chaired by Jean-Marc saved to have presented the fruits of his investigation tendentiously in order to “close the discussion” and to force the representatives of the Catholic Church to acquiesce without flinching to his “ideological” recommendations . In particular, they criticized the implementation of the estimate of 216,000 people today who have been victims, minor, a priest or a religious, which climbs to 330,000 if we add the victims of laity on mission. “Scientific rigor has not presided over his work,” they accused.
After the diffusion of this fabric of fifteen pages, which found an echo in some conservative segments of the Catholic Church, Jean-Marc Sauvé had decided to answer in detail. This is the subject of the ninety-six pages posted by CIASE. “It could not be satisfied with a shrug in the face of these venomous attacks made in an approach of denial, denigration and destruction, explains to the world the former vice-president of the Council of State. Because what is at stake today, it is the ability of the Catholic Church to continue to bring a word of salvation to our society. What it has given ways to make by engaging in a path of recognition and repairing what happened. “At the end of this review, he says,” there is nothing left of the very serious criticisms that were addressed to this report by the Catholic Academy “.
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The objections of the Catholic academicians were three orders. They involved the encryption of sexual violence committed since 1950; they attacked legal and theological analyzes; Finally, they questioned the legitimacy of Ciase to propose changes to the Church.
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