PARIS (FRANCE)
LaCroix International
May 9, 2019
The tone was firm and the will to cooperate complete.
At a 40-minute audition before the Senate commission on sex offences against minors on May 7, Archbishop Éric de Moulins-Beaufort of Reims and soon-to-be president of the Conference of Bishops of France demonstrated a certain voluntarism with regard to the need to shed light on the sex abuse scandals in the Church.
“It cannot be considered purely marginal,” the archbishop, who will assume office of the president of the Conference of Bishops of France from July 1, said before about 10 senators. “It’s a systemic problem that needs to be treated as such.”
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