Media too tough on Cardinal Marc Ouellet, says Quebec Archdiocese

CANADA
CBC News

The media have been too negative in reporting about Quebec papal contender Cardinal Marc Ouellet, said the Quebec City Archdiocese.

Jasmin Lemieux-Lefebvre, spokesman for the Archdiocese, said a recent “blacklist” compiled by a U.S.-based group, the Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests, is unfair to Ouellet.

The organization nicknamed a group of 12 cardinals including Ouellet “the dirty dozen,” saying it did too little to address concerns of abuse in the Roman Catholic church.

“When I saw this coverage, I could only say to myself, ‘This is enough,’” said Lemieux-Lefebvre at a press conference this afternoon.

He said none of the 12 cardinals on the so-called blacklist deserve to be on it.

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