how we did it

The first rule of a journalist is to protect his sources. This is the reason why I cannot write how I had access to the various victims who agreed to testify in this article. What I can write, on the other hand, is that I would never have accessed so much information without the active help of several very committed people in the Church. The latter are priests, monks or nuns, or even lay people who have exercised important responsibilities with ecclesial authorities. They love the Church and want to serve it. All share the conviction that only the strictest truth will allow the institution to recover honorably from the crisis of sexual abuse.

These sources also testify to a vivacious, unalterable faith, and a sometimes corrosive sense of humor, which allows them not to lose their footing. They have accompanied victims for a long time. They listen to them, help them shape their story up to, as often as possible, towards the filing of a complaint before the civil justice.

These whistleblowers, for whom the fight against abuse has become the fight of a lifetime, are the reason why you will not read under my pen that “the Church covers”. Because they too are the Church.

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