La Ciase's response to criticism from the Catholic Academy of France!
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.
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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 'Hexagon. The academicians had also questioned the figures put forward by Ciase, according to which 330,000 minors had been the subject of sexual violence on the part of clerics, religious or lay people in connection with the Church, since 1950.
A valid methodology
Ciase's response, published on Wednesday February 9, methodically refutes, in no less than 53 pages, the accusations of the Catholic Academy of France. The expertise of five specialists in survey methodology and polling theory and that of François Héran, former director of INED and professor at the Collège de France, back it up.
Because this is one of the main points of Ciase's argument, which seeks to demonstrate first of all the solidity of the count of victims and pedocriminals in the Church. The two expert reports "welcome the seriousness of the methodological precautions taken" by Inserm, notes Ciase from the pen of its president Jean-Marc Sauvé, according to whom "the legitimate emotion aroused by the figures [...] did not justify either their stubborn denial, nor (their) attempts to disqualify”.
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