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French Catholic Church in crisis: Trainee priests grapple with aftermath of abuse scandal

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Six months after the publication of the Sauvé report, which revealed the scale of sexual abuse over decades in the French Catholic Church, what effect has the crisis had on aspiring priests? Despite the atmosphere of mistrust currently enveloping the Church, some forty students at the diocese in Orléans are training to join the priesthood while attempting to learn from the errors of those before them. Our France 2 colleagues report, with FRANCE 24's Emerald Maxwell.

Programme prepared by Emerald Maxwell.

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