The investigation found that an estimated 330,000 children were victims of sex abuse within France's Catholic Church between 1950 to 2020, with an estimated 216,000 people abused by priests and other clerics.
Some 86 per cent of victims were male children - many of whom did not report the abuse they suffered for decades.
The independent commission, made up of 22 lawyers, doctors, historians, sociologists and theologians, worked for two-and-a-half years, listening to victims and witnesses and studying church, court, police and press archives starting from the 1950s.
Wow, these French nuns were into some weird shit. If you so much as squinted at a crucifix when I was growing up you'd get a ruler slammed into your hand.