The “Documentation Catholique” asked Father Stéphane Joulain, a Missionary of Africa and psychotherapist, to put into perspective Pope François’ approach to sexual abuse in the Church, “to try to bring out a little of the hermeneutical universe of the Holy Father and to be able to see what he wishes to put in place at the pastoral level”. Indeed, Pope Francis’ Letter to the People of God, dated August 20, 2018, follows on from two other important letters, those he wrote on May 17, 2018 to the Chilean bishops who came to meet him in Rome and those of May 30, 2018 to the People of God who are walking in Chile.
Read in French the article from the newspaper La Croix of November 8, 2018