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pain and shame"

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The disaster is here, before our eyes, and will haunt hearts and consciences for a long time,

The veil has been lifted on what the members of this Commission unanimously qualify as a "systemic" phenomenon.

Mandated by the bishops and the congregations, placing the victims at the center of their approach, they dismantled the perverse mechanism which made the silence last and the attacks continue.

(…) And they deliver this appalling estimate: in seven decades, approximately 330,000 children have been assaulted or raped by the very people who were responsible for making them discover Christ, priests, religious or lay people in the service of the Church.

How not to experience revolt, disgust, shame, overwhelm?

Sexual abuse: the Church in shock at the truth,

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We can dissect them, compare them, the figures are unbearable.

They reveal the extent of pedophilia in the Catholic Church.

A long procession of victims cries out for justice at his door: what have you done with your children?

(…) This report is overwhelming,

Le Figaro, the Church appears stripped, the weakness of its members, to the indignity of some, is exposed.

She also shows courage, agreeing to carry out a trying examination of conscience.

In doing so, it shows the way to all of society, to National Education, to the world of sport and leisure, which are also affected by evil.

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the episcopate, through the voice of the president of the Conference of Bishops of France, Eric de Moulins-Beaufort, expresses" his shame "," his fear "and asks for" forgiveness "from the victims. It was about time, exclaims the Communist daily. But this forgiveness will not be enough to overcome the unbearable truth, which portrays the collective responsibility for a tragedy. (…) Because the problem is not the Church but the victims destroyed for life. Getting to the bottom of the wound, disinfecting it, requires courage and lucidity, repairs and strong decisions. (…) If it were not followed up, this terrifying report would be a betrayal of the victims. (…) From celibacy to the shackles of another age, the aggiornamento of the Church must follow.

The Church needs a real aggiornamento

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The Sauvé commission offers useful leads, notes the evening daily: the Church must recognize its responsibility as an institution, initiate a mechanism of" financial repair "and modify its mode of governance, its training and prevention processes. . She recommends making criminal justice prevail over canon law, which ignores the victims, calling into question the "excessive sacralization of the person of the priest" and leaving more room for women. But,

Le Monde, can such minimal measures be enough for the Church to regain the lost confidence and claim to make her voice heard again in society?

The fact that almost all of the sexual abuse observed was committed by men questions the place of women in the institution.

He questions the very structures of the Church which, founded on male domination and refusing to allow women to dispense sacraments, doubts a fundamental principle of modern societies: equality between men and women.

 in the face of absolute horror, we expected a strong gesture from the ecclesial leaders. We are still waiting for it. Far from a collective resignation, the victims were entitled to contrite requests for forgiveness and to a disturbing statement by its very denial: the Archbishop of Lyon, Mgr de Germay, having declared that "these appalling figures show that in the past The Church has been failing. How the devil,

Libé, can one specify "in the past" by condemning a systemic mechanism of rape and violence against which nothing has been done? "In the implicit thought of the bishops , there is the idea that the problem belongs to the past ", underlines the report. The victims have nothing to do with the implicit thoughts of the bishops,

Release.

It is their explicit acts of redemption that are expected.

How to fix the irreparable?

Le Parisien. "

The measures announced in the wake of the revelations of the Sauvé report are welcome, but they do not affect the elements which have favored these abuses: the monarchical organization of the institution at all levels, the recruitment of priests, the relationship to the sexuality, the role of women and undoubtedly the question of celibacy. These developments can only come from the Vatican,

Le Parisien. Benedict XVI, lacking in strength, preferred to give way while he sensed the gravity of the crisis. Pope Francis seems determined but must count on strong opposition from the "conservatives". It is no exaggeration to say that the Church is playing part of her future here.