Cardinal Jean-Pierre Ricard, the retired Archbishop of Bordeaux, disclosed that he sexually abused a 14-year-old girl in 1987, six years before he was named a bishop, 19 years before he was named a cardinal, and 19 years before he was elected President of the Bishops’ Conference of France and Vice-President of the Council of European Bishops’ Conferences. Prosecutors in Marseille have begun a preliminary investigation.