Perhaps a culmination ... It has been twenty years that the Church of France has been fighting, not always successfully, against the pedophilia of a minority of its clergy which has tainted all priests.
Measure after measure, the episcopate emerged from denial to ward off this internal evil, while facing a major external crisis caused by the scandal: loss of credibility, drying up of vocations, drop in donations.
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After many meetings and initiatives taken, it seems that this time the Catholic Church has deployed a coordinated action plan with “eleven resolutions”.
It was announced Friday, in Lourdes, at the end of the Assembly of the Bishops of France.
Three key measures stand out, attesting to a new state of mind.
The most spectacular is the creation of a “national-level criminal court” in canon law which “
does not dispense with recourse to state justice
”, warns the episcopate, but which should make it possible to gain in “
efficiency
” in dealing with the problem. case of the priests concerned.
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