FRANCE
Christian Today
April 5, 2018
A French cardinal and other senior Catholic Church officials will go on trial accused of covering up sex abuse in what will be France’s highest profile abuse case.
Cardinal Philippe Barbarin, archbishop of Lyon, Archbishop Luis Ladaria Ferrer, head of the Vatican’s powerful doctrine office, and five other Catholic Church officials will appear before a criminal court in Lyon in January next year.
Victims of a paedophile priest, Father Bernard Preynat, say the Catholic leaders knew about Preynat’s past abuses but did not report them to the authorities.
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