Outrage in France: A French priest is being condemned after suggesting that children raped by Catholic clergy were willing victims seeking tenderness from their abusers.
Alain de la Morandais, an 83-year-old priest and the former abbot of La Morandais, appeared on the French television program Audrey & Co earlier this week to talk about the resignation of Cardinal Barbarin, who was recently convicted by a French court for covering up the sexual abuse of a child committed by a priest.
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/progressivesecularhumanist/2019/03/french-priest-claims-child-rape-is-not-violence-but-tenderness/
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/progressivesecularhumanist/2019/03/french-priest-claims-child-rape-is-not-violence-but-tenderness/