Laura Laplaud 8:38 a.m., December 23, 2022, modified at 8:39 a.m., December 23, 2022
Monsignor Matthieu Rougé, Bishop of Nanterre, was the guest of Europe Matin on Friday.
At the end of 2021, the report of Ciase, the Independent Commission on Sexual Abuse in the Church, revealed the extent of internal violence in the institution.
For more effective treatment of offenses committed within the Church, the Conference of Bishops of France set up at the beginning of December a "national episcopal criminal court", a first in the world.
If the Church thus takes the bull by the horns, will the institution be able to purify itself?
"It is essential to work on it. What is important is to have done this work of truth. And faced with the extent of the tragedies brought to light, there are two solutions: we give up or we is rolling up its sleeves. And it is the second solution that we have chosen", certified Monsignor Matthieu Rougé, Bishop of Nanterre,
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"Sexual abuse is a kind of murder"
"It's a way of denying Christ to indulge in sexual abuse," he continued at the microphone of Europe 1. "It's something extremely serious. What we have discovered in society in general, is that sexual abuse is not first of all giving in to the temptation of the flesh, it is a kind of murder because one harms the most intimate of people ."
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