The Vatican said Friday it has decided to launch a preliminary sex abuse investigation into a prominent French cardinal after he admitted to having behaved in a "reprehensible way" with a 14-year-old ...

PARIS (AP) — The prosecutor’s office in Marseille has opened a preliminary investigation for “aggravated sexual assault” against Cardinal Jean-Pierre Ricard, one of France’s highest-ranking prelates ...

PARIS (AP) — Cardinal Jean-Pierre Ricard, one of France's highest-ranking prelates of the Catholic Church, said Monday that he had abused a 14-year-old girl 35 years ago and is withdrawing from his ...

A French cardinal said on Monday that he had abused a 14-year-old girl several decades ago and was making himself available to authorities. Cardinal Jean-Pierre Ricard said in a statement: ...

French Cardinal Jean-Pierre Ricard of Bordeaux is pictured in a 2013 photo at the Vatican. The Vatican will begin an investigation of Cardinal Ricard, who admitted in a public letter that he had ...

French authorities have opened an investigation into one of highest-ranking members of France’s Catholic Church, who admitted to sexually abusing a 14-year-old girl when he was a parish priest, more ...

The moon rises over the 19th-century Sacré-Coeur Basilica on Montmartre in Paris Nov. 5, 2017. (CNS photo/Christian Hartmann, Reuters) At a meeting of the French bishops’ conference, a letter from ...

The Archbishop of Bordeaux and member of the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei, Cardinal Jean-Pierre Ricard, said this week the lifting of the excommunication imposed on four bishops ordained by ...

RNS — Cardinal Jean-Pierre Ricard is a member of the Vatican department that investigates abuse cases in the church. VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Cardinal Jean-Pierre Ricard, a member of the Vatican ...

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