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Lay people attack the Catholic Church to defend the memory of Father Finet

2020-07-18T03:25:09.677Z


They demand evidence, believing that the co-founder of the Foyers de Charité is unjustly accused.The fact is rare enough in the ecclesial world to be noticed: the family of a deceased priest, but accused of having touched young girls in a boarding school, as well as an association of former students, revolted by these accusations thirty years after the death of Father Georges Finet (1898-1990), turn, in complementary ways, against the Catholic Church. Read also: The Foyers de Charité, a Cath...


The fact is rare enough in the ecclesial world to be noticed: the family of a deceased priest, but accused of having touched young girls in a boarding school, as well as an association of former students, revolted by these accusations thirty years after the death of Father Georges Finet (1898-1990), turn, in complementary ways, against the Catholic Church.

Read also: The Foyers de Charité, a Catholic work, recognize the sexual abuse of their founder

The collective of more than a hundred former students notably demands transparency on the "investigation" against them, according to them, which was carried out by a mysterious commission whose composition is kept secret. He asked for the “final report” of the investigation to be released, as only a short “summary” was published on May 7.

"Opacity"

Exasperated by this "opacity" which contradicts the new policy of "transparency" of the Catholic Church in the matter, the group of former students - who claims not to be in "denial" of possible problems - morally supported by the family of the priest who hired

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Source: lefigaro

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