The Lacuna Project

lacuna (n.) a gap in a record where something should be

Independent research. Not affiliated with any government, agency, or company.

Religious body

Bishops' Conference of France

Findings that rest on exhibits naming this entity

  • REL-3.7: France's independent commission CIASE estimated that 216,000 children were sexually abused by clergy and religious from 1950 to 2020, with a 95 percent confidence interval of 165,000 to 270,000, from a survey of 28,010 adults. It found that over most of that period the Catholic Church's attitude was concealment, relativization or denial.

Exhibits naming this entity

  • Exhibit 484 5 October 2021. Independent Commission on Sexual Abuse in the Church (CIASE), France: Summary of the Final Report of the Independent Commission on Sexual Abuse in the Church (CIASE)