French cardinal to be investigated around abuse confessions
The prosecutor’s workplace in Marseille has opened a preliminary investigation for “aggravated sexual assault” versus Cardinal Jean-Pierre Ricard, 1 of France’s optimum-ranking prelates of the Catholic Church
PARIS — The prosecutor’s business office in Marseille has opened a preliminary investigation for “aggravated sexual assault” in opposition to Cardinal Jean-Pierre Ricard, one of France’s optimum-rating prelates of the Catholic Church.
By means of a letter that was study out Monday in the course of a meeting of French bishops, Ricard reported that he experienced abused a 14-yr-old lady 35 yrs in the past and is withdrawing from his religious duties.
The investigation was opened Tuesday pursuing a letter from an adviser of the current bishop of Wonderful.
Dominique Laurens, the Marseille prosecutor, opened the preliminary investigation but specified that “no complaint” has but been submitted towards the cardinal.
Ricard, 78, used to be the archbishop of Bordeaux, in southwestern France, right up until he retired from that place in 2019 to provide in his household diocese of Dignes-les-Bains, in the south of the region. In the 1980s, he was a priest in the archdiocese of Marseille.
In addition to any attainable felony investigation, Ricard could also be subject matter to church sanctions centered on his confession.
The Vatican spokesman did not answer to requests for remark Tuesday about what would come of Ricard, such as regardless of whether he would be taken off from his Vatican obligations. Amid other points, Ricard is a member of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, meaning he is a voting member of the Vatican office environment that adjudicates clergy sexual abuse conditions.
There has been a person identified circumstance to day in which a pope has defrocked a cardinal accused of abuse, the then-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, an American who denied the misconduct allegations but was finally discovered guilty by a church investigation of abusing adults as effectively as minors.
Previously, Francis taken off the legal rights and privileges of the late Scottish Cardinal Keith O’Brien soon after he was accused of misconduct with grown ups.
The prosecutor’s workplace in Marseille has opened a preliminary investigation for “aggravated sexual assault” versus Cardinal Jean-Pierre Ricard, 1 of France’s optimum-ranking prelates of the Catholic Church
PARIS — The prosecutor’s business office in Marseille has opened a preliminary investigation for “aggravated sexual assault” in opposition to Cardinal Jean-Pierre Ricard, one of France’s optimum-rating prelates of the Catholic Church.
By means of a letter that was study out Monday in the course of a meeting of French bishops, Ricard reported that he experienced abused a 14-yr-old lady 35 yrs in the past and is withdrawing from his religious duties.
The investigation was opened Tuesday pursuing a letter from an adviser of the current bishop of Wonderful.
Dominique Laurens, the Marseille prosecutor, opened the preliminary investigation but specified that “no complaint” has but been submitted towards the cardinal.
Ricard, 78, used to be the archbishop of Bordeaux, in southwestern France, right up until he retired from that place in 2019 to provide in his household diocese of Dignes-les-Bains, in the south of the region. In the 1980s, he was a priest in the archdiocese of Marseille.
In addition to any attainable felony investigation, Ricard could also be subject matter to church sanctions centered on his confession.
The Vatican spokesman did not answer to requests for remark Tuesday about what would come of Ricard, such as regardless of whether he would be taken off from his Vatican obligations. Amid other points, Ricard is a member of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, meaning he is a voting member of the Vatican office environment that adjudicates clergy sexual abuse conditions.
There has been a person identified circumstance to day in which a pope has defrocked a cardinal accused of abuse, the then-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, an American who denied the misconduct allegations but was finally discovered guilty by a church investigation of abusing adults as effectively as minors.
Previously, Francis taken off the legal rights and privileges of the late Scottish Cardinal Keith O’Brien soon after he was accused of misconduct with grown ups.