Canadian Cardinal Gérald Cyprien Lacroix, close advisor to the Pope, accused in his country of sexual assault,
“denied”
categorically on Friday January 26, denouncing
“unfounded allegations”
and announced that he was withdrawing
“provisionally from his activities”
, according to a press release from the diocese of Quebec.
Aged 66, the man who has been archbishop of Quebec since 2011 and cardinal since 2014 is accused of touching by a minor at the time of the events, as part of a collective action which targets more than a hundred members of the diocese of Quebec.