As if the tragedy of sexual abuse in the French Catholic Church was not enough, the irrepressible Minister Delegate in Charge of Citizenship at the Ministry of the Interior, Marlène Schiappa, well-known for her campaigns against “cults,” started stirring up the government about the seal of confession. What happened was that the independent commission that […]
Author Archives: Massimo Introvigne
Massimo Introvigne is an Italian sociologist of religions. He is the founder and managing director of the Center for Studies on New Religions (CESNUR), an international network of scholars who study new religious movements. From 2012 to 2015 he served as chairperson of the Observatory of Religious Liberty, established by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs to monitor problems of religious liberty on a worldwide scale.
