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The head of France’s Catholic bishops conference is asking forgiveness from the estimated 330,000 victims of child sex abuse by the church found in a...
Head of French bishops' conference asks forgiveness from the victims, who welcome publication of document they say was long overdue
PARIS: French Catholic clergy sexually abused around 216,000 minors spanning seven decades since 1950, a “massive phenomenon” that was covered up by a “veil of silence,” an independent commission said Tuesday. The commission’s two-and-a-half-year inquiry and 2,500-page report prompted outrage as the Catholic Church in France and around the world faces a growing number of abuse
The Catholic Church had shown “deep, total and even cruel indifference for years,” protecting itself rather than the victims of what was systemic abuse in France, the report found.
An estimated 330,000 children were victims of sex abuse within France's Catholic Church over the past 70 years, a report has said.