Where to start?
A week after the publication of the Sauvé report, the episcopate, which is preparing its autumn assembly in Lourdes from November 3 to 8, is working on the implementation of the 45 recommendations of the Independent Commission on Sexual Abuse in the Church (Ciase ).
Two files are priority for the Church of France, indicated Tuesday Mgr Éric
de Moulins-Beaufort to Gérald Darmanin, Minister of the Interior, during their interview on the subject of the controversy over the secrecy of confession which would be
"stronger"
than the laws of the Republic.
The statute of the secrecy of confession, on the one hand, in particular in the event of confidences of a sexually abused minor but also of an aggressor priest: must the confessor denounce?
The establishment, on the other hand, in all the dioceses, of protocols with the civil justice to trigger almost automatic "reports", as soon as there is suspicion of sexual assault on the part of a cleric.
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