New book explores plague of abuse in Church’s new religious movements
- Inés San Martín Apr 12, 2021
Jean Vanier, founder of the L'Arche communities, appears in the documentary "Summer in the Forest." (Credit: CNS photo/Abramorama.)
ROME – In 2017, the man who leads the Vatican’s office for religious congregations acknowledged in an interview that some 70 “new movements” were under investigation for the abusive behavior of their founders.
French journalist Céline Hoyeau, who covers the religion beat for the French Catholic daily La Croix, took this to heart and began investigating many of the men and women who founded new religious movements in the era before and after Second Vatican Council.
The new movements were often considered the source for a “new springtime” for the Catholic Church, amidst a crisis in vocations and a rapid secularization.
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