Monsignor Acero: “Many of our young people have suffered abuse and trauma that they have not been able to overcome”

“If our formation systems manage to accompany, heal and prevent these realities, our seminaries and houses of formation will experience a great structural change: from clerical introjection we will move towards lay accompaniment” Monsignor Acero: “Accompanied by God, something essential in our life, and also accompanied by another person to distinguish what is one’s own … Read more

The abuse of synodality: a toxic nightmare. By Cardinal George Pell

(ZENIT News – The Spectator / Rome, 01.12.2023).- On Tuesday, January 11, Cardinal George Pell passed away. His last writing was published by The Spectator and in it he concretely addresses the preparatory document for the Synod on Synodality and more generically also the synod itself. This is a markedly critical text by a man … Read more

This is how Oprah Winfrey has changed, from surviving sexual abuse to absolute queen of television

During the last four decades, the name of Oprah Winfrey has been a constant in the media, not only in the United States, but also internationally. Many consider that Oprah was destined to be someone great since she dedicated herself to reciting verses from the Bible in her native Kosciusko (Mississippi, USA); but her reality … Read more

“Stolen Lives in the Name of God”: The book narrates the abuse of power that existed within the Catholic Church

This Friday afternoon in conversation with the program Words Take Out Words, We spoke with the journalist María Olivia Browne, who is the co-author with Anicole Contreras of the book “Vidas robadas en nombre de Dios” and spoke about what the investigation of the book is about, which narrates the story of the protagonists themselves … Read more

Buddhism: “Behind the media reception of abuse hides so many things to talk about…”

Monks take a walk during a government-organized media tour in Lhasa, Tibet on May 31, 2021. HECTOR RETAMAL / AFP French Clément Sans recently became a Zen monk, ordered under the name of Tozan (“the mountain of the peach tree”). Each month, he sends us a letter that shares with us his reflections and his … Read more

The Catholic Institute of Paris launches a university degree dedicated to sexual abuse

4:30 p.m., October 9, 2022 A year after its publication, the shock wave of the report of the Independent Commission on Sexual Abuse in the Church (Ciase) continues to move the lines of the Catholic world. While the victims criticize the slowness of the process set up by the National Compensation and Reparation Authority, the … Read more

“Abuse reporting structures seem to protect the institution more than the victim”

Father Epiphane Kinhoun/Epiphane Kinhoun Interview A Jesuit originally from Benin, Father Épiphane Kinhoun is director of the Center for Therapy and Protection of Minors located in Yaoundé (Cameroon). “For many, abused people are not victims but responsible for what happens to them”deplores to La Croix Africa the one who is also vice-rector of the Catholic … Read more

One year after Church sex abuse report, ‘nothing has changed for victims’

Victim of an Alsatian priest when she was a minor, Corinne expected a lot from the Church following the publication of the report of an independent commission on sexual abuse in the fall of 2021. But a year later, no start of taking into account charge. La Colmarienne has lost confidence in the institution. The … Read more

Marl. Religion: against a background of sexual abuse and abuse of power, the community of the Word of Life dissolved

By Writing Coulommiers Published on 24 Sep 22 at 18:06 The Briard Country See my news Follow this media A departure that shocks and will leave a void. (File photo) ©LPB Founded in 1986 and present for 32 years in bayeto hamlet of Andecythe Community of the Word of Life is a private association of … Read more

Patrick Goujon winner of the 2022 Interior Freedom Prize for “Prayer not to abuse”

Thirty years of anti-inflammatories, we stop. Will you allow me to take care of you? I’ll refer you to our pain center. Patrick Goujon, plagued by chronic back pain since childhood, was saved by these words. The new therapy offered to him and the let me take care of you pronounced by his rheumatologist led … Read more