French bishops accept Catholic church bore responsibility in child abuse cases
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- Reuters
- Published Date: 03:15 | 05 November 2021
- Modified Date: 03:18 | 05 November 2021
French bishops said on Friday they accepted that the Catholic church bore an "institutional responsibility" in the many thousands of child abuse cases documented in a shock report.
The Bishops Conference at its annual meeting also recognised that the church was guilty of allowing the abuses to become "systemic", conference president Eric de Moulins-Beaufort said, a month after the report detailed the abuse of 216,000 minors over seven decades.
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