Secular experts to advise French church on child sex abuse

FRANCE
New Zealand Herald

Wednesday Apr 13, 2016

PARIS (AP) ” The French Catholic Church has decided to set up a new independent commission made up of secular experts in charge of advising bishops and helping them handle the sensitive cases of child sex abuses by priests.

Monsignor Georges Pontier, chief of French bishops, announced Tuesday a series of measures to fight pedophilia inside the French church, amid growing concerns over newly-revealed child sex abuse cases, especially in the Lyon diocese run by Cardinal Philippe Barbarin.

Barbarin said that “the commission will be in place before the summer of 2016.”

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