Pedocriminality and the secret of confession: “There is a scent of crime against humanity” in the Church, d – franceinfo

Three days after the publication of the report of the Independent Commission on Sexual Abuse in the Church (Ciase), the reactions multiply. “We don’t know anything” about this institution, believes François Devaux.

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Catholic Church “carried such a work of death that it resides a scent of crime against humanity”, denounced Friday October 8 on franceinfo François Devaux, figure of the liberation of the word of the victims of sexual violence on behalf of the priests, and co-founder of the association “La Parole libérée”, today dissolved, after the Comment by Bishop Éric de Moulins-Beaufort.

The president of the French Bishops’ Conference said on Franceinfo on Wednesday that “the secret of confession” was “stronger than the laws of the Republic”.

“This is a real question that arises on the generosity of this definition of a crime against humanity, which has continued to evolve over the course of legal proceedings”, estimates François Devaux, three days after the publication of the report of the Independent Commission on Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church (Ciase). “These bishops are almost all above ground, cut off from society. They absolutely do not realize.”

The president of the French Bishops’ Conference is summoned to the Interior Ministry next Tuesday “in order to explain his remarks” on the secrecy of confession.

“When we are able to commit so many crimes on so many children for so many decades and cover them up, we might as well tell you that the rest of the management of this institution is rubbish.”

François Devaux, co-founder of the association “La Parole libérée”

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On the issue of compensation for victims and the Church’s lack of resources put forward by Eric de Moulins-Beaufort, François Devaux ensures that“we don’t know anything” of this institution “which maintains total opacity in its operation”. “We don’t know anything about the funds that pass between France and the Vatican. The Republic will have to do an audit of all this. And when the Republic goes to put its nose in the affairs of the Church, it will really be very, very shocked “, estimates François Devaux.