Pedophilia in the church, in France it is a conflict over confession. “Inviolable secret”, “No, the law of the state is rewarded”

PARIS – The secret of confession in the Catholic religion is stronger than the laws of the République. That’s what the president of the French bishops’ conference said, Eric de Moulins-Beaufort, responding to one of the recommendations made by the commission that investigated pedophile priests. Members of the body that released a shock report on abuses in the French church on Monday suggested that the ecclesiastical authorities send a clear message to confessors and faithful on the obligation to report cases of sexual violence inflicted on to the judicial and administrative authorities. a minor or a vulnerable person.