Posted on 05/01/2019 12:53:55 PM PDT by Jyotishi
Caption: 'Sex Slaves in the Catholic Church'
German-French channel Arte says it will fight to overturn a court injunction that prevents it from rebroadcasting the documentary, which accuses rogue priests of sexually abusing French nuns.
A French television documentary that accuses Catholic priests of sexually abusing nuns has been pulled from the French-German television channel Arte after a priest filed a complaint with a German court.
French director Marie-Pierre Raimbault and investigative journalist Eric Quintin shot the documentary, Sex Slaves in the Catholic Church, over three years, basing it on firsthand testimony of nuns who claim they were used as “sex slaves” by priests. The women say when they presented their allegations to church authorities at the Vatican, they were ignored and often moved elsewhere in a cover-up that stretched across four continents.
Arte first aired the film in March. Some 1.5 million French viewers caught the original broadcast, with a further 1.7 million watching on replay, making it the most-watched documentary of the year for the channel. The film has sold worldwide.
Pope Francis has publicly acknowledged the problem, noting that the Vatican had to dissolve a French order because its sisters had been reduced to “sexual slavery” at the hands of its founder and other priests.
In November, the organization representing all the world’s female Catholic religious orders, the International Union of Superiors General, denounced the “culture of silence and secrecy” that prevented nuns from speaking out and urged sisters to report abuse to their superiors and police.
The Vatican's women's magazine, Women Church World, has reported that some nuns had been forced to abort the priests’ unwanted children.
Arte was forced to pull Sex Slaves in the Catholic Church from its online site earlier this month after a court in Hamburg, Germany, slapped a temporary injunction on the film following a complaint filed by a priest. The court said the priest said, while he was not shown in the documentary, he was "recognizable" from an interview given by a nun. In the interview, the complaint reads, the nuns “gave the impression that the priest had forced a nun into sex against her will.” The priest was not identified in publication of the complaint.
“For both formal and factual reasons, Arte considers this decision to be wrong and we have therefore decided to appeal,” a channel spokeswoman said in a statement.
For the time being, Arte is keeping the documentary off its replay site. Violations of the injunction carry a possible fine of up to $280,000 and jail time of up to two years.
Another film criticizing abuse by the Catholic Church — Francois Ozon's Berlin Silver Bear winner By the Grace of God — had to battle two separate legal challenges that sought to block its release.
The film, largely inspired by the real-life case of Father Bernard Preynat, a French priest indicted two years ago for sexual assault and accused of molesting more than 80 boys, faced legal injunctions filed by both Preynat and former church volunteer Regine Maire, who sought to block its release in France. But the French courts threw out both cases and the film bowed in France on Feb. 20.
Priests having sex with women? Don’t buy it.
Bishop in India Charged With Raping Nun Over a 2-Year Period
April 9, 2019
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/09/world/asia/india-bishop-nun-rape.html
Waiting for ANY documentaries that speak the unvarnished truth about islam.
Sounds like the plot of a porn movie.
The French will never miss an opportunity to tell a story about innocent French women being brutalized by the German Hun.
get thee to a nunnery
I’ve always thought asking a priest to stay celibate for his lifetime as completely unnatural and a set up for disaster. To not take a wife, not raise a family, to see nearly everyone around you doing so. It would make you feel set apart.
I’m shocked!
Well, not really.
They are probably listed at Jihad Watch: https://www.jihadwatch.org
Matthew 19:10 "His disciples say unto him, If this be the case of a man with his wife, it would be better not to marry."
Why, because it is centuries-old news?
Despite the hype, I’ve seen the most abused children by priests are girls.
French Catholics. Yikes.
The pope has acknowledged its validity.
What’s the lawsuit over? Truth?
Another verse taken out of context.
Jesus was talking about divorce there, not monogamy.
I have yet to see another religion that is so opposed to marriage as Catholicism.
Unnatural, yes, but nothing wrong with it. Certainly no one gets hurt if someone is celibate.
And OTOH we have rampant problems because some are unconcerned about morals BECAUSE it’s “natural”. People have become used to having sex any old time and that is definitely not good either....it becomes a habit that must be maintained.
And frankly, I think the idea of celibacy/no marriage is good for religious leaders. Sorry, but how can he really care about all his flock if he has personal concerns like young children and a wife? Major distractions.
Monogamy is relevant here, since no-divorce marriage is the same as monogamous marriage.
You can see how shocked the Apostles were by this teaching. Especially since He said this was the unchangeable nature of marriage, because --- nevermind Moses --- it is GOD who joined the man and the woman together. GOD is the basis of this unbreakable bond.
This is what Christ said, which is reflected in the teachings of the Church.
If you find this "anti-marriage," you'll have to take it up with the Author of Marriage.
"Another verse taken out of context..." Jesus was talking about divorce there, not homosexuality."
Again, I reply that He was not talking ONLY about one disputed question or another. He was making a fundamental, all-encompassing point about the nature of marriage itself. He does this by citing how it was "in the beginning": Man, woman, exclusive, faithful, lifelong.
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