Bishop still thinks he was right to appoint an abuser to high ecclesiastical office

 

Spina Affair: Bishop de Kerimel puts another coin in the jukebox

While the dust has barely settled following the pathetic Spina affair, in which Bishop de Kerimel of Toulouse attempted to have a priest convicted of raping a teenager appointed chancellor, then laboriously tried to justify the unjustifiable by sharing his deviant visions of mercy and restorative justice, before having to backtrack after the intervention of the CEF and then Rome, the Archbishop of Toulouse has just responded to a lay leader of the MEJ in Toulouse, Margot Ferreira, who wrote to him to express her outrage. And the least we can say is that Bishop de Kerimel persists and stands firm, proving right the thousands of faithful who want him to retire as quickly as possible.

Margot Ferreira echoes the Archbishop's response to X: "We cannot, after ignoring the victims, forever condemn the perpetrators of abuse. Some experience true conversion and change, not all. We must therefore discern each person's situation, but in the name of the Gospel, we have a duty to reintegrate them, each according to their abilities."

And to wax lyrical: "You see, I knew a victim who saved an imprisoned perpetrator of abuse (himself a victim in his childhood) from suicide; he converted; he himself saved another inmate from suicide and is evangelizing in prison. The victim, before dying of illness, entrusted this inmate to me, and I am edified by his letters."

Quick, a cause for canonization!

Bishop de Kerimel refused to answer his priests on the Spina Affair

Very resolute in writing, even if it meant rekindling the controversy himself with each of his interventions, Bishop de Kerimel seemed less courageous in public speaking. During the Toulouse Diocese's priests' day, during which there was to be a question-and-answer session with the bishop, Bishop de Kerimel reportedly refused to answer any questions about the Spina affair—and other controversial topics. At the suggestion of a well-known coach in religious circles, the priests agreed to write their questions on Post-it notes.

Bishop de Kerimel will answer them one day, perhaps.

If his interventions on mercy give him time.

Poor Church of France, poor people of Toulouse...

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