We can analyze what has been revealed in the Notre-Dame de Betharram establishment as in some other Catholic establishments such as a kind of archaism: ill-treatment from obsolete and disappearance conceptions and practices. From there to say that it is Catholic education or even religion which are in themselves carrying a retrograde vision which authorizes … Read more
The Minister of Education Elisabeth Borne said on Saturday that we lived “a form of school metoo” with the Betharram affair, which released violence in Catholic establishments. “We can say that we live a form of #MeToo school. Speech is released but we must go and seek this word, ”said the minister in The Parisian. … Read more
For several months, the French have witnessed the revelation of pedocriminal affairs which, by their magnitude, have caused dread and amazement. The testimony of the victims of Notre-Dame de Betharram, the opening of the surgeon of the Surgeon Le Scouarnec, the Mazan rape trial and the complaint of Caroline Darian against her father Dominique Pelicot, … Read more
“The good sisters, who had nothing good, martyred us. The rare girls who came to run away, when they returned we mowed their heads, and they were locked up at the mitard. A cover, a rotten mattress, a hygienic bucket in the background. When he was full and when we had pressing desires, we made … Read more
It is a new scandal that is bursting, in line with the Betharram affair. The Catholic private college Saint-François-Xavier (SFX) in Ustaritz, in the Basque Country, is the object in recent days of edifying accusations of former students, who would have been victims of violence, even sexual assault for some of them. Five to six … Read more
► Is private contract under contract controlled? It was the great accusation of the parliamentary report on public funding of Catholic education, published on April 2, 2024, which advanced that at the current rate the frequency of financial control of a private school was once every 1,500 years. In addition to the question of financial … Read more
The two corapporters of the parliamentary commission of inquiry on the control of state-owned schools visited the premises of the former-Dame-de-Betharram (Pyrénées-Atlantiques) on Tuesday, where they did not find everything they were looking for. Violette Spillebout (Renaissance) and Paul Vannier (LFI) have passed “An hour and a half” AT A BEAUMBER, CURRENT NAME OF THE … Read more
La Croix: During a press conference Thursday, March 13, you explained that the congregation undertook, before the irruption of the scandal in November 2023 and the filing of more than 150 complaints to date, several initiatives towards the victims. What was the action of the priests of Betharram? Laurent Bacho: First of all, I would … Read more
Bishop of Bayonne, Mgr Marc Aillet, expressed his ” shame “Thursday, faced with the multiple denunciations of physical and sexual violence in Catholic establishments in the diocese, including that of Notre-Dame-de-Betharram (Pyrénées-Atlantiques), ensuring that they have discovered these facts in the press. “The church has already expressed its shame several times and I do it … Read more
“We will also audition François Bayrou. “The parliamentary commission of inquiry into violence in schools, created in the wake of the Betharram case on Wednesday wanted to” audition “the Prime Minister. “Of course Mr. Bayrou will be heard by the Commission,” said Fatiha Keloua Hachi (PS), the president of this commission, during a press conference … Read more