An image marked this weekend in Lourdes: a man kneeling at the foot of the cross.
The president of the French Bishops' Conference, surrounded by all his counterparts, wanted to symbolically express the Church's attitude towards the extent of the sexual abuse revealed by the Sauvé report: humility, contrition, reparation.
The face of a child in tears, affixed in the sanctuary, now embodies the procession of victims.
The French bishops thus agreed to look at the
“dark side”
of the Church, which was for a long time silent, as if paralyzed, unable to open its eyes to the tragedy.
They announced strong measures.
The victims were waiting for them, the report asked for them, society was watching them:
"We did it",
hammered Bishop de Moulins-Beaufort in an inspired closing speech.
The Catholic Church must be given credit for this unprecedented initiative.
She chose a courageous attitude and led a relentless reflection.
The most symbolic of his decisions concerns compensation
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