We publish here a document of the bishops of France on sectarian drifts, by Sr. Chantal-Marie SORLIN, Head of the Office of the Episcopal Conference for Sectarian Drifts, June 2014
Translation by Ana Azanza. Original text in French .
This list of criteria follows a behavioral process in four chronological steps:
1. The cult of personality
The members of the group feel attracted and grouped around a founder with a complex personality in his career and pretensions…
1.1 The birth of the group
A dysfunction in the discernment of vocations can have dire consequences. Examples abound of candidates for the priesthood rejected in one diocese but accepted in another. The same applies to the recognition of an association of the faithful or a community. Likewise, the Swiss bishops have just recalled this requirement: “when candidates for the priesthood or religious life change their place of formation or community, information must circulate among the directors in a clear and precise manner.”
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