11 French Bishops Accused Of Sexual Violence: Church Group
Eleven former or serving French bishops have been accused of sexual violence, including the former bishop of Bordeaux who has confessed to assaulting a minor 35 years ago, a senior church body announced Monday.
The accused will face either civil cases or church disciplinary procedures, Reims Archbishop Eric de Moulins-Beaufort, president of the Bishops' Conference of France, told reporters.
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Eleven former or serving French bishops have been accused of sexual violence, including the former bishop of Bordeaux who has confessed to assaulting a minor 35 years ago, a senior church body announced Monday.
The accused will face either civil cases or church disciplinary procedures, Reims Archbishop Eric de Moulins-Beaufort, president of the Bishops' Conference of France, told reporters.
https://www.barrons.com/news/11-french-b...1667831107
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"