Emmanuel Macron praised “the spirit of responsibility” of the Church after the publication of the report saved and wished that “this work can continue in lucidity and appeasement”.
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Policies put pressure on the Catholic Church. Faced with the magnitude of sexual abuse committed since 1950 – 216,000 people attacked by religious, according to the commission saved – politicians consider that the clergy can not remain inactive. During a trip to Slovenia, Wednesday, October 6, the President of the Republic welcomed “the spirit of responsibility” of the Church. But, added Emmanuel Macron, “I wish this work to continue in lucidity and appeasement. Our company needs it. There is a need for truth and repair”.
Others have shown more precise. The Mayor of Nice, Christian Estrosi, support from Emmanuel Macron, certainly affirmed the same day do not want to “judge instead of the Pope”. However, the former member of the Republicans (LR) asks the Church to return to the secret of confession. Recalling Article 40 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, which intimate “any authority constituted, any public or public officer” knowing a crime or an offense to seize justice, Mr. Estrosi believes that “what in public life is A requirement, in any human organization, whatever it may be, must be a reality too “.
In fact, the report saved recalls that the secret of confession “can not derogate from the obligation, provided for by the Criminal Code and in accordance with the Commission, the obligation of Divine Law Natural for the Protection of Life and the dignity of the person, to report to the judicial and administrative authorities cases of sexual violence imposed on a minor or a vulnerable person “.
In question about FranceInfo at the very moment when Christian Estrosi spoke on BFM-TV, the President of the Conference of Bishops of France, Eric de Moulins-Beaufort, entrusted: “The Secret of Confession is required to us and, in this, it is stronger than the laws of the Republic. Because it opens a free space of speech, which is before God. “Without excluding a job to do, it did not take over his account the recommendation of the Commission. Which provoked the wrath of the member of the European member Manon Aubry (France unsuitable): “Where are those who cry for separatism as soon as a Muslim speaks,” she wrote on Twitter, and say nothing when a bishop calls the priests to ignore the law of the Republic under a religious pretext? ”
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The pressure is strong. “The entirety of the Forty-five recommendations of the Saved report must be applied,” said the President of the LR Group at the National Assembly, Damien Abad. Like him, the former socialist candidate for the 2007 Presidential, Ségolène Royal, questioned the prescription so that predators will all be convicted? “For his part, MP Olivier Becht, President From the group of members to act, ally of the majority, invited the Church to question “the chastity of the religious or the end of the celibacy of the priests”, reports the France-Presse agency.
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