INTERVIEW. Priest Rik Devillé from Canvas documentary about child abuse in the church: “The Pope laughs in our faces” | Domestic

InterviewThe four-part Canvas documentary ‘Forgotten God’, also shown on VRT MAX, is a blood-curdling collection of testimonies from victims of sexual abuse within the Catholic Church. In the first episode, priest Rik Devillé (80) speaks. He was the first to identify the problem in the early 1990s, but was only thwarted. Thirty years later, he does not have the impression that much has changed. “All my friends who have positions within the Church have dropped me.”