Staggering scale of abuse in French "new movement"

Foyers de Charité: 200 "victims or problems" out of 1,000 members?

Natalia Trouiller, a former journalist at La Vie and former communications manager for the Diocese of Lyon, who has become a specialist in supporting victims of sexual violence in the Church, focuses in a thread on yet another community emerging from the French Charismatic Renewal and plagued by problems of control, mystical fraud, theology completely distorted by the "shepherds," and abuse of all kinds. Bishop Dubost, a Eudist, Bishop Emeritus of Evry, and close to Pope Francis, who regularly sends him as a firefighter to dioceses (Lyon, Cayenne), where communities are ravaged by abuse scandals or internal abuses. He was appointed in February 2022 as pontifical delegate to reform the Foyers de Charité. He left in early 2024 amid deep disagreements with the community.

In a meeting with members of the Foyers de Charité in November 2022, he acknowledged that there are "around 200 cases in France alone of victims or problems" (sic). As Natalia Trouiller points out, "there are around 1,000 Foyer members worldwide."

In some homes, such as Courset in 2023, the Friends Association preferred to resign en masse rather than acknowledge the damages related to the abuse, a few days before the visit of Bishop Dubost and the authorities of the Diocese of Arras:

As a reminder, to date, abuses have occurred in the following Charity homes, often in connection with the historic shepherds who founded these homes:

Châteauneuf de Galaure (26)

Spa (Belgium)

Tressaint and Dinard (22), where Mediapart counted up to 90 victims

Courset (62)

In Baye (51), the investigation was closed without further action.

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Cathcon: Yet another new movement, yet more abuse. They were founded in 1948 by Marthe Robin to be workers of a “New Pentecost of Love” - and became a mirror of the Second Vatican Council.   Like the Council, it has not worked out very well.