One of France's most
prominent cardinals knew about a pedophile priest abusing young Catholic
Scouts—and now the alleged cover-up will be tried in secular courts.
ROME
— For all those who say that the Catholic Church is doing all it can on
clerical child sex abuse—namely the Vatican press office—there is yet
another reason to doubt those lofty words. Meet the Archbishop of Lyon,
Cardinal Philippe Barbarin, who has denied he did anything wrong by
hiding the well-known fact that Father Bernard Preynat was sexually abusing as many as 40 Catholic Scouts in France in the late 1980s and early 1990s.