confession Cardinal Jean-Pierre Ricard, Honorary Archbishop of Bordeaux (France), a sexual abuse against a minor Committed more than thirty years ago, it has finally reached the top of the Vatican hierarchy. Vatican announced its decision to open this Friday. Research Against the abbot, days after the revelation was published during the annual session of the French Episcopal Conference, which ended Tuesday in Lourdes.
This was reported by Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni, who detailed that the preliminary investigation will begin after the investigation begins. most suitable person lead the case. He will be someone with “the necessary autonomy, impartiality and experience”, Bruni said, adding that he will begin after the investigation, determined by Vatican practice, is concluded. civil investigation already open This week for French justice. The Vatican’s goal is “to understand exactly what’s going on,” he said.
By Ricard’s own account, the abuse would have occurred. when he was a parish priest and the minor in question was 14. It was 35 years ago, in 1987, which makes it difficult for Ricard to be punished by French civil justice, given the sexual crimes against minors in France. to prescribe 30 years after the age of the majority of victims.
216,000 victims
Ricard’s case was decided by an independent commission in October 2021. at least 216,000 underage children were victims of pedophiles within the French Catholic Church, who scandalized the public and the Church itself at the time. Add up the abuses committed by lay personnel in Catholic schools or centres, a figure some of which rises to 330,000.
After that, according to a statement from the French Church on 7 November, More than a dozen bishops and ex-bishops are under investigation, including Ricard. “My behavior must have had serious and lasting consequences for this person,” said the abbot, pleading for forgiveness and acknowledging his guilt.
means knowledge one more stone in the shoe Pope Francisco encouraging for years zero tolerance policy against these crimes In fact, many of these attacks were made after the late World War II. Although performed during the papacy of John Paul (in an open process, canonized in 2011), have been hidden or ignored for decades, and only in recent years they began to meet.
Sanctioning another bishop
So much so that the Ricard case not the first known Others in recent months in France are facts including: Michel Santtier, former bishop of Créteil (near Paris) and who yes he was punished for at least two young people “mentally abused for sexual purposes” by the Vatican last year.
with everything, the sanction was unknown until this yearCausative Anger in victim associations. But it also gave rise to three other people who came to prominence with their stories.
Source: Informacion
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