Philippe Barbarin
French report: 330,000 children victims of church sex abuse
By Sylvie Corbet — October 5, 2021
PARIS (AP) — Victims of abuse within France’s Catholic Church welcomed a historic turning point Tuesday after a new report estimated that 330,000 children in France were sexually abused over the past 70 years, providing the country’s first accounting of the worldwide phenomenon. The figure includes abuses committed by some 3,000 priests and an unknown […]
French court convicts cardinal of not reporting child abuse
By Nicolas Vaux-Montagny — March 7, 2019
LYON, France (AP) — French Cardinal Philippe Barbarin said Thursday he will offer his resignation to Pope Francis, after a court found Barbarin guilty of failing to report allegations of sexual abuse of minors by a priest.
US not alone in grappling with Catholic sex abuse, cover-up
By Nicole Winfield — August 22, 2018
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Cases of Catholic priests raping and molesting children, and of bishops covering up for them, have erupted on nearly every continent in recent years.
Police question French cardinal over pedophile priest
By RNS staff — June 8, 2016
Cardinal Philippe Barbarin, 65, who has denied covering up the activities of the Rev. Bernard Preynat, was questioned as a witness by officers of the child and family protection brigade at a police station in Lyon.
French cardinal accused of cover-up in widening abuse scandal
By Elizabeth Bryant — March 15, 2016
PARIS (RNS) Cardinal Philippe Barbarin is accused of covering up allegations of sexual abuse of young boy scouts before he was named cardinal.
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