Europe 1 8:32 a.m. on October 6, 2021, modified at 8:39 a.m. on October 6, 2021
The publication on Tuesday of the Sauvé report, which reports 216,000 victims of pedophile clergy, continues to undermine the religious institution. On Wednesday, on Europe 1, Monsignor Luc Crepy, Bishop of Versailles, pointed out the problem of the sacralization of clerics, who "have arrogated to themselves a power that has become all-powerful".
The release of the findings of the Sauvé report on Tuesday morning caused an explosion within the Church. It must be said that the figures of the independent commission of inquiry into child crime in the Catholic Church are staggering: 216,000 minors victims of members of the clergy since 1950, 330,000 victims if we add those who have been abused by lay people working in the institutions of the Church. Wednesday, on Europe 1, the bishop of Versailles, Monsignor Luc Crepy, said all his "shame" and tried to provide some explanations.
Because beyond the observation, it is necessary to question the mechanisms that allowed such "systemic" violence, as the Sauvé report qualifies it.
And for the man of the Church, "there is a theological drift which makes the priest sacred" today.
"I think that when you look at the profile of many aggressors, they are people who have arrogated to themselves a power that has become all-powerful, the unfortunately banal drift of all power. They have become untouchable men."