Father Rivoire, accused of sexual assault in Canada, will not be excluded from his congregation. Frenchman, a member of the congregation of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate, was sent on a mission to Canada in 1960, for around thirty years.
The steps to exclude the religious, initiated following a visit by Inuit to the congregation's headquarters in Lyon in 2022, all failed, her lawyer having cited the "declining health of her client", she said. Two arrest warrants in Canada have been issued against him.