The Pope expresses his “immense pain” for the victims of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church of France

The Pope Francisco expressed his “pain” for the report published today on the 330,000 cases of abuse or sexual violence against minors or vulnerable people that occurred since 1950 in the French church and said that his thoughts go “first of all to the victims, with great pain, for their injuries, and gratitude, for their courage in the complaint.”

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Francisco he was informed of the publication of the report by the French bishops, whom he met in recent days during ad limina visits (which are made every five years), “and learned with pain its content,” the Vatican reported.

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“His thoughts go above all to the victims, with great pain, for their injuries, and gratitude, for their courage in the complaint, and to the Church of France, because, in the awareness of this terrible reality, together with the suffering of the Lord for his most vulnerable children, he can embark on a path of redemption ”, stated in a statement.

In addition, the pontiff prays for French Catholics and “especially for the victims”, so that God “gives them comfort and comfort and that with justice the miracle of healing will come.”

According to an independent commission that has investigated the phenomenon in the French Church in the last three years and has identified between 2,900 and 3,200 religious pedophiles, there have been at least 330,000 cases of abuse or sexual violence against minors or vulnerable people since 1950.

Through hundreds of interviews with victims and the analysis of the ecclesiastical archives of the different dioceses of the country, a bleak panorama has emerged for the Catholic Church, “much higher than expected”, as recognized by the president of the French Episcopal Conference, Eric of Moulins-Beaufort.

This institution was in the focus of the report, accused of having looked the other way, of not having taken the alarm signals seriously for years by the victims and of having tried to cover the pedophile clerics, according to the president of the commission, Jean-Marc Sauvé.

Sauvé spoke of a “massive” phenomenon, acknowledging that both the victims and the aggressors identified are “a minimum” and appealed to the Church to “apologize” and compensate people who, for the most part, have “significant” behavioral problems. sexual and psychological.

The president of the French bishops expressed his “shame” over some facts that “because of their shocking nature and because of their number overwhelms,” but he tiptoed over the issue of compensation, which is the main claim of the victims’ associations, which They accuse the Church of looking the other way in this matter after years of having done it with the reported cases.

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