LE FIGARO. - In your book, you seek to go beyond both the journalistic and the hagiographic to
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think about
abuse in the Church
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Is there a third way
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First, let's admit it, we overuse the word "abuse".
In at least two ways: we forget that abuse presupposes good use (as the proverb says: we only abuse good things), and this question of good use is often left aside;
We confuse very diverse situations of violence through this term, failing to see what is specific about so-called “spiritual” abuse (my essay does not address pedophilia which is blatantly ignominious).
In the spiritual case, the abuser-abused opposition quickly proves insufficient...
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I come to the two modes of reading in progress: the journalistic, which brings out the factual, and the hagiographic, which aims for the edifying.
The first puts us in the position of disillusioned spectator;
the second, incredulous before the fallen “saint”, turns…
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