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Sexual abuse in the Church: a report by Catholic intellectuals points to the flaws and biases of the Sauvé commission

2021-11-27T16:17:28.315Z


Eight members of the Catholic Academy of France point to serious methodological flaws in the report of the Independent Commission on Sexual Abuse in the Church (CIASE).


They are eight but not the least.

All are members of the Catholic Academy of France, a body not linked to the Church but created in 2008 by lay people to unite French intellectuals and scientists from all fields of knowledge who recognize themselves in this Christian confession.

These eight dare to stand up today to criticize without controversy but in depth the report of the Independent Commission on Sexual Abuse in the Church (CIASE) published on October 5 in Paris.

A critical study

Everything goes there.

First of all, the statistical methodology which led the Sauvé commission, named after its president, to go from “

171

” people who were really polled and who claimed to have been victims of a priest or a lay Catholic, to the astonishing number of “

330,000

” victims abused by clerics or laity working for the Church.

The “

prejudices

” of an “

ideological

nature

then against Catholic theology testifying to a “

hostility

” and a deep ignorance of the Church by the team of the

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Source: lefigaro

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