Wounds in the Body: A Thoughtful Response to the Abuse Crisis in the Church
In 2021 Catholics in France were deeply shaken by the publication of a report revealing the dimensions of abuse within the Catholic Church there: content known at least in part by some, suspected by others, but which had never been documented as such, en masse. In the same period, Dom Dysmas de Lassus, Superior General of the Carthusians, emerged from the silence characteristic of his order and published a 446-page book entitled Risks and Aberrations in the Religious Life.
