Saved Report: The Shock
The president of the Independent Commission of Inquiry into the sexual abuse of minors committed within the Catholic Church, Jean-Marc Sauvé, during the submission of the report, on October 5, 2021 in Paris.
© Thomas Coex / POOL / AFP
By: Geneviève Delrue
2 min
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World Religions - Sunday October 10, 2021 - 11:10 a.m. - 12 p.m. Paris time
Tuesday, October 5, 2021 will remain a date in the annals of the history of the Church of France with the
submission of the report from Ciase
, the Independent Commission on Sexual Abuse in the Church and its shocking figure: 216,000 people have were victims, between 1950 and 2020, of sexual violence before their majority perpetrated by priests, deacons, men and women religious. A figure which rises to 330,000 victims if we take into account the laity working in institutions linked to the Catholic Church.
In this program, we will hear excerpts from the presentation of the report by
Jean-Marc
Sauvé
, president of Ciase, as well as the reactions of
Sister Véronique Margron
, member of Ciase and president of Corref (Conference of nuns and religious of France) and
Bishop Eric de Moulins-
Beaufort
, President of the Conference of Bishops of France.
With the Jesuit priest, Father
Pierre de Charentenay
, former editor-in-chief of the journal Études, which signs
“
Church zero tolerance / Fight against pedophilia in the church
” (Salvator),
overview of what happened in Europe, North America and Australia, over the past twenty years, in the fight against child crime within the Catholic Church.
In Africa
, where the prevention of sexual violence in society and within the Church is still in its infancy, the Jesuit priest and psychologist
Jean Messingué,
specialist in supporting victims, expresses the cultural and social difficulties. , nuns met. In June 2022, he will coordinate an
international conference
in Abidjan
on sexual violence against children and women
.
The testimony of Father
Patrick Goujon
, professor of the History of spirituality at the Center Sèvres-Jesuit Faculties in Paris, allows us to better understand the post-traumatic damage of sexual assault.
In his book
"
Prayer not to abuse
" (Threshold)
, he describes the denial of nearly forty in which he had walled himself.
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