Priest convicted of rape and promoted in Toulouse: amen

We were unaware of this sentence, in the 1990s, from the director of Notre-Dame de Bétharram , (Pyrénées-Atlantiques), Father Carricart, quoted by Le Parisien on Sunday and addressed to the chaplain Dominique Spina: "This kid, he's a good plan, I was able to take advantage of him." It is abject with the added evidence of an explicit agreement between pedophile priests.

In the region, 27 complaints from former victims have been filed. The boy will be raped by Father Spina, but it was in 2006, for another case, that the latter was sentenced to five years in prison. How many cases before that? Upon his release, the Church, being a good mother, gave him a position as an archivist in Toulouse. Until the Archbishop of the Pink City, at the beginning of June, took him out of the closet of secrets by appointing him chancellor of his diocese .

After two months of what must be imagined to be intense reflection, the French Bishops' Conference, also on Sunday, indicated that it had entered into a "constructive dialogue" with the archbishop, "so that he reconsiders his decision" , who said he had acted out of "mercy" with a man whom "he has nothing to reproach" . Amen?