On the sidelines of the publication of the Sauvé report, Friday, October 8, at 3 pm, several lay Catholics launched on Twitter the hashtag “MyChurchToo”, translated into French as “aussiMonEglise”.
For the moment, as assured to
Famille Chrétienne
one of the initiators of this hashtag, the essayist and lawyer Erwan Le Morhedec, the movement assures that it has "
neither spokesperson nor specific complaints
".
However, on the social network, many people are showing their support for victims of sexual abuse in the Church and calling for “
reforms
” as well as “
real participation of the laity
”.
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Asked by
Famille Chrétienne
, Erwan Le Morhedec stressed that this hashtag “
testifies to a real enthusiasm among the faithful, a desire to change things and restore the Church
”. “
(...) For many lay people, the Church is our life, and we want to be part of it. For a long time we delegated the management of the Church with a form of naivety, without feeling concerned, but the result does not satisfy us ”
, he added. For the moment, on Twitter, under the hashtag #AussiMonEglise, Internet users are sharing both angry messages and various recommendations.
According to the Independent Commission on Sexual Abuse in the Church (Ciase), since 1950, 216,000 people over the age of 18 have been subjected to violence or sexual assault during their minority, by clerics (priests or deacons) or religious men and women.