A Church devoured by its own shadow
Towards a Comprehensive Understanding of the Sexual Abuse Crisis in the Catholic Church

With Carl Jung's contribution on dark complexes as a backdrop, this brings us closer to the shadow of a Church that gazes at itself, like Narcissus contemplating his beauty, while it walks naked through the cries of those who have remained silent for decades about the suffering endured under its protection. The victims of yesterday, survivors today, will find in these pages what sustained and sustains those who abused them. Without that ideological support, without the complicity of abusive structures in many areas, without institutional narcissism cloaked in clericalism, without the secret and dark experience of a poorly assimilated sexuality, among some of the keys to understanding addressed in this book, the impunity of their actions and the clumsy institutional response when the truth stands starkly before their eyes are incomprehensible.