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At the end of November, eight members of the Catholic Academy of France expressed their disapproval of the Ciase report on sexual abuse in the Church of France published the previous month. In a long response coupled with two expert reports published on Wednesday February 9, the commission chaired by Jean-Marc Sauvé refutes the criticisms received point by point. Adelaide Patrignani - Vatican City It was a document that Jean-Marc Sauvé had announced, so as not to leave unanswered the severe indictment drawn up at the end of November by the Catholic Academy of France, an unofficial body born in 2008, which brings together some 200 to 250 Catholic intellectuals in its breast. Some of them had in particular denounced the “faulty methodology”of the report of the Independent Commission on Sexual Abuse in the Church (CIASE) published at the beginning of October, sowing disorder among the faithful of the Church of France and fueling the controversies around a report read beyond the borders of...

The Sovereign Pontiff will visit the island of Malta during an apostolic trip scheduled for April 2 and 3, the Press Office of the Holy See made official this Thursday, February 10, the patronal feast day of Saint Paul shipwrecked on the 'Isle. The Press Room of the Holy See made public this Thursday, February 10 an upcoming apostolic journey of Pope Francis. The Holy Father will visit the Maltese archipelago on April 2 and 3. He will visit the cities of La Valette, Rabat, Floriana, as well as the island of Gozo, in the northwest of the archipelago. The detailed program of this first trip announced for the year 2022 will be communicated later. This Thursday, February 10 is a national and religious holiday in the Mediterranean archipelago. This opportunely chosen date commemorates the day of the shipwreck of Saint Paul on the shores of the island on his return from the Holy Land, around 60 AD according to the Acts of the Apostles. The anniversary thus symbolizes the beginning of the...

On the occasion of the feast of Our Lady of Lourdes and the 30th World Day of the Sick, the rector of the sanctuary of Lourdes, Mgr Olivier Ribadeau-Dumas, returns to the notion of fragility and the importance of mercy, in a context where the pandemic has disrupted relations. Adelaide Patrignani - Vatican City This 30th World Day of the Sick has a particular resonance at the sanctuary of Lourdes, where February 11 is also the feast of Our Lady of Lourdes and the anniversary of the first apparition of the Virgin Mary to Saint Bernadette in 1858. This year, the day instituted by Saint John Paul II unfolds according to a theme dear to Pope Francis: “Be merciful, as your Father is merciful”  Mercy, the faithful experience it in their flesh and soul, often wounded, when they come to the Pyrenean sanctuary. With Mary and thanks to the attention of the people they met, their hope was rekindled. And it could be from this Friday in an even more symbolic way, since after two years of closure...