French Priest-therapist Removed from Ministry for Alleged Sexual Abuse

By Celine Hoyeau
La Croix Internationa
July 5, 2018

https://international.la-croix.com/news/french-priest-therapist-removed-from-ministry-for-alleged-sexual-abuse/7980#


Msgr. Tony Anatrella, a priest and psychoanalyst specializes in social psychiatry, in Paris on Jan. 10, 1996. He has been prohibited from pastoral ministry on suspicion of sexual abuse. (Photo by Stephane Ouzounoff//CIRIC)The French Catholic Church has announced sanctions against Msgr. Tony Anatrella, who has been the subject of accusations by his former patients for more than 15 years.Msgr. Anatrella, 77, is accused of having practiced “body therapy” in order to “heal” homosexuality and of having been involved in sexual abuse.On the basis of information gathered during a preliminary investigation, Archbishop Michel Aupetit of Paris has now ruled that “no priestly...