In the context of the crisis of sexual abuse committed by a minority of the clergy, Cardinal Robert Sarah publishes a work * against the grain to defend the figure of the Catholic priest.
LE FIGARO.
- What do you think of the measures taken by the French Bishops' Conference taken during the Lourdes assembly against the pedocriminality of a minority of priests?
Cardinal Robert SARAH.
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It was necessary to face the truth in the face.
What have we discovered?
First, the breadth and depth of sin.
If there is an institutional responsibility, it is there: not having known how to call evil by its name.
We have shown a terrible lightness of conscience in the face of the gravity of sin.
“Crime must be punished.
Sin must be made good.
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Cardinal Robert Sarah
When a priest assaults a child, it is not an accident in his journey.
It is a radical negation of his being as a priest.
It's a crime.
It destroys the human and spiritual life of the victim.
He dirties the priesthood.
It defiles the whole Church and it prevents evangelization.
The crime must be punished.
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