Saint Jean: Dissolution Still on the Table

Summary of the historical report (read thanks to @tommy)

Family Backround: Three siblings of 12 (eight became religious) were abusive, Thomas, Marie-Dominique and Cécile. Thomas was most decadent. He had also an incestuous affair with Cécile. Cécile was Mother superior of the Dominican monastery in Bouvines until her forced deposition in 1956. She had Lesbian relationships inside the monastery and brought her nuns to Fr. Thomas to be abused by him.

Fr. Thomas founded a lose community called “Eau vivre”, condemned by the Vatican 1957. One of Thomas’ disciples there became the likewise sexually decadent founder of Arche, Jean Vanier. “Eau vivre” was popular among the Church hierarchy. Even Pius XII and Montini, substitute at the Secretariat of State and future Pope Paul VI became interested. Angelo Roncalli, nuncio in Paris and future Pope John XXIII, visited twice.

Thomas’ had pervert sexual affairs with Dozens of women (kisses, intimate caresses, fellatio, intercourse, sexual practices with several woman) justified “mystically”. It was credibly witnessed to the Church hierarchy in the 1950s and he was condemned 1956.

Marie-Dominique was fully informed about the facts (1952) but explicitly wanted to protect his guilty brother. He spread the lie that the abuses were a “plot” and “revenge” because of clerical envy (Thomas has replaced another Dominican) and tensions and rivalries between the Dominican priory in Le Saulchoir and L'Eau vive.

Marie-Dominique connected Thomas, like Cécile, to psychological fragile adult women who got abused/started a sexual affair.

Another accomplice of Thomas at Eau vivre, Jacqueline d’Halluin, had sexual relationships will all of them, with Thomas, Marie-Dominique and Jean Vanier.

Marie-Dominique’s longterm personal affairs are three, Nicole B (pseudonym, alive and witnessed), Alix Parmentier and Michèle-France Pesneau.

Nicole B (*1932) was a former nun of Cécil’s monastery in Boulogne. She left 1956 after Cécile was deposed. Nicole had a close relationship to Marie-Dominique starting in the 1950s including hugs, kisses and intimate caresses. When she refused “submission”, he reacted with “cold anger”. In 1986, he wanted “a fellatio”. She considered this an act against nature and refused. Then, he started speaking ill of her and the trust band was broken.

Alix Parmentier (1933-2016) wanted to enter Cécile’s monastery in Boulogne. But just at this time, Cécile was deposed. So, Alix she entered the Carmel in Boulogne, where Fr Marie-Dominique preached regularly. She left 1963 to become his secretaire a Fribourg. The relationship was not professional but she became his close aid, chauffeur, and 1982 founder of the sisters of St John. Their relationship was asymmetric, dependent, affective and “seriously disordered”. The sexual affair is shown by several converging testimonies. Reportedly they used a single hotel room on their frequent trips. One witness said there were sounds of sexual activity from a hotel room they used together. Another witness, a sister, who was sexually used by Marie-Dominique wanted to inform Alix who replied that he “had gone very far in this area with her”.

Michèle-France Pesneau (*1945), also a former nun of the Carmel in Boulogne, was depressive. Marie-Dominique started to meet her at the Carmel privately. His hands ended up under her dress (“intimate caresses”). She left the monastery in 1974 and he helped her to find a flat, visited her regularly and got sexual acts (including fellatio). Marie-Dominique introduced her to his brother Thomas, whose pervert sexual relations with her went further. She confessed her sexual sins with them to both of them and received from both absolution, a crime that leads to the automatic excommunication of the accomplices/priests.

Abuses in the community St. John

In 1975, Marie-Dominique founded the male community St Jean, in 1982 the sisters. He abused sisters starting in the first years. The relationships went for months or years up to a decade (including being totally naked, sexual touching, masturbation, fellatio, penetration with the finger, cunnilingus).

Maria-Dominique never practiced natural sexual intercourse, allegedly out of respect for “the virgin” [more likely to avoid pregnancies as his brother Thomas coerced the abortion of an own child].

Only three, relatively harmless cases concern homosexuality/males, a kiss on the mouth and taking their hands to his sex OVER the clothes.