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Bishops in France Set up Commission on Sexual Abuse

By Anne-Benedicte Hoffner
La Croix International
November 9, 2018

https://international.la-croix.com/news/bishops-in-france-set-up-commission-on-sexual-abuse/8811?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=e-mail&utm_content=09-11-2018&utm_campaign=newsletter_crx_lci&PMID=0993ce75a05e850a9ee6d7668f102aad



Bishops of France pray at the opening of the bishops’ conference meeting in Lourdes, Nov. 3. (Photo by Eric Cabanis/AFP)A “profound moment of encounter, in humility and listening.” This is how the president of the French Bishops’ Conference Archbishop Georges Pontier of Marseille described the meeting with victims of sexual abuse.By meeting victims for the first time at their plenary assembly in Lourdes, the bishops acknowledged “the long-lasting and profound damage” caused by the acts of abuse themselves and also by “the inadequate taking into account of these acts by ecclesial authorities, and the feeling of not being heard at all.

 

 

 

 

 




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