LYON (FRANCE)
Euronews
November 28, 2019
French Cardinal Philippe Barbarin is appealing his conviction for failing to act on sexual abuse in his diocese.
The highest-profile French cleric in the Catholic Church implicated in the abuse scandal, 68-year-old Barbarin received a six-month suspended sentence in March for failing to report allegations of the sexual abuse of Boy Scouts in the 1980s and early 1990s. Father Bernard Preynat, the priest accused of the offences, is due to go on trial in January.
Barbarin has been Archbishop of Lyon since 2002 and was once tipped as a possible future pope.
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