Pope’s answer on Paris prelate raises more questions than it answered
By now, one could assemble an entire 40-man baseball roster just from bishops whose resignations Francis has refused.
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by bcadmin | Dec 8, 2021 | Archbishop Michel Aupetit, archdiocese of Paris, Bishop Juan Barros, Cardinal Philippe Barbarin, Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki, lead, News, News Analysis, Papal press conference, Resignation | 0 |
By now, one could assemble an entire 40-man baseball roster just from bishops whose resignations Francis has refused.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 8, 2021 | Agence France-Presse, Bernard Preynat, Boy Scouts, Cardinal Philippe Barbarin, Catholic Church in France, Lyon, News, Pedophiles, U.S. & World News | 0 |
More than 3,000 pedophiles have operated within the Catholic Church in France since the 1950s, an official investigation found.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 14, 2021 | abuse cover-up, Associated Press, Cardinal Philippe Barbarin, Catholic Church, Church in Europe, clerical sexual abuse, France, Lyon, News | 0 |
France’s highest court confirmed on Wednesday that the former archbishop of Lyon, Cardinal Philippe Barbarin, did not cover up the sexual abuse of minors by a predator priest.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 22, 2020 | Bishop Appointment, Cardinal Philippe Barbarin, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in Europe, France, Lyon, News | 0 |
Pope Francis has named Bishop Olivier de Germay of Ajaccio, Corsica, to be the new archbishop of Lyon, France, succeeding a cardinal whose conviction on charges of failing to report clerical sex abuse was overturned.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 10, 2020 | abuse cover-up, Cardinal Philippe Barbarin, Catholic News Service, Church in Europe, clerical sexual abuse, France, French bishops, French Catholics, Lyon, News | 0 |
A French cardinal who resigned as archbishop of Lyon after being acquitted of failing to report clerical sex abuse said the royalties from his new book would go to abuse victims.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 1, 2020 | Cardinal Philippe Barbarin, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in Europe, France, Lyon, News | 0 |
Cardinal Philippe Barbarin, who retired from the Archdiocese of Lyon, has left his see to serve as a convent chaplain and envoy for the pope.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 6, 2020 | abuse cover-up, Associated Press, Cardinal Philippe Barbarin, Catholic Church, Church in Europe, France, Lyon, News | 0 |
Pope Francis on Friday accepted the resignation of a French cardinal who was convicted and then acquitted of covering up for a pedophile priest in a case that fueled a reckoning over clergy sexual abuse in France.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jan 30, 2020 | Associated Press, Cardinal Philippe Barbarin, Catholic Church, Church in Europe, clerical sexual abuse, France, Lyon, News, second | 0 |
A French appeals court on Thursday acquitted a French cardinal of covering up the sexual abuse of minors in his flock.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jan 20, 2020 | Associated Press, Cardinal Philippe Barbarin, Catholic Church, Church in Europe, clerical sexual abuse, France, Lyon, News, second | 0 |
One of the first people to notice Bernard Preynat’s unhealthy obsession for young boys was the supervisor at the seminary where, still a teen, the future priest started training for his career in the church.
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