The victims of clergy sexual abuse have had enough

PARIS (FRANCE)
LaCroix International

April 8, 2019

The appalling current situation has driven us to speak out.

How can we keep quiet when the papal nuncio of France is the subject of three complaints of sexual assault and yet he calmly continues living his life at the nunciature? How can we keep quiet when nuns are abused or raped by priests, including within the Vatican itself, with the passive complicity of some of their superiors?

How can we keep quiet when an old priest explains on television that it is children who “spontaneously… seek affection” and says, “You have all seen a how a child comes and kisses you on the mouth…” ?

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