Never heard of.
In any case, not publicly, at this level of detail, in the mouth of a pope, on the personal life of a bishop.
Asked on his return from Greece on Monday on the Aupetit affair, the Archbishop of Paris, whose resignation the Pope accepted on December 2, Francis indeed revealed that
"there was a breach on his part, a fault against the sixth commandment ”.
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This commandment states,
"Thou shalt not commit adultery."
The Pope went so far as to specify:
"Not in a total way, but small caresses, massages which he gave to his secretary."
A statement which deeply shocked the French episcopate.
"Aupetit is a sinner, so am I"
As soon as this first light was shed on his decision to accept the Archbishop's resignation, the Pope relativized its seriousness:
“It is a sin.
But that's not one of the gravest sins, because the sins of the flesh aren't the gravest.
The most serious sins are those which are inspired by “angelicity”
(neologism invented by the Pope to designate
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