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Sexual abuse: Cardinal Ricard denounces himself, the French Church again in shock

11/7/2022, 7:14:40 PM


By admitting "reprehensible" conduct towards a 14-year-old girl, Jean-Pierre Ricard, the former boss of the bishops of France, provokes a

“Sickening”, “scary”, “revolting”.

On social networks, Catholics almost lose their words.

After the former bishop of Créteil, Michel Santier, who admitted having committed an act of voyeurism on two adult men in the 1990s, it is a heavyweight of the Church of France who has just fallen, also caught up by a sexual abuse case.

And this time‚ it is not a simple patron of a diocese who is affected, but a cardinal, one of the five that the Church of France currently has to participate in the election of the successor of Pope Francis.

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