Report finds Catholic Church in France failed to report abuse and sometimes knowingly put children in touch with predators
Believers attend a mass in the Cathedral of Lucon, western France on March 14 2021, organized after the unveiling ceremony of a plaque in tribute to children victims of sexual abuse by priests. Picture: AFP/LOIC VENANCE
The head of the French conference of bishops, Eric de Moulins-Beaufort, said the Church was shamed. He asked for forgiveness and promised to act. Sauve said the problem was still there. He added that the Church had until the 2000s shown complete indifference to victims and that it only started to really change its attitude in 2015-2016.The Catholic Church’s teaching on subjects such as sexuality, obedience and the sanctity of the priesthood helped create blind spots which allowed sexual abuse by clergy to happen, Sauve said, adding that it needed to reform the way it approached those issues to rebuild trust with society.
It added a list of recommendations that included systematically checking the criminal record of any person assigned by the Church to be in regular contact with children or vulnerable people, and providing priests with adequate training. Sauve said the scale was unprecedented, with most other investigations of the Catholic Church’s sexual abuses focusing on victims identified individually.
The French findings come a year after Britain said the Catholic Church had received more than 900 complaints involving over 3,000 instances of child sex abuse in England and Wales between 1970 and 2015, and that there had been more than 100 reported allegations a year since 2016.
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