The Benedictine nuns of the Sacred Heart of Montmartre communicate, acknowledging spiritual abuses within their congregation – notably as a result of a former superior who was removed in 2013 – and a work undertaken to end the derivatives and rebuild the congregation after two apostolic visits in 2004 and 2012:
“After many years of broken ties with the Institute of the Benedictine Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Montmartre (BSCM), several outgoing sisters have resumed contact with the current prioress general.
On 11 and 12 February 2023, a beginning of a re-reading of the past of the Institute was undertaken between the BSCM and several of the sisters who had left. Supported by oral and written testimonies, this meeting made it possible to put into common words a whole system of control, with serious and lasting consequences, put in place over several decades by the authority of the time. At the end of this weekend, by common agreement and in a renewed dialogue, it was decided to publish an official statement acknowledging the abuses suffered within the BSCM.
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Fractured face of Benedictine life after the Council
Fractured face of Benedictine life after the Council
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