Catholic Cardinal Admits To Abusing Teenager
Cardinal Jean-Pierre Ricard, one of the highest-ranking bishops of France’s Catholic Church, said Monday that he abused a 14-year-old girl 35 years ago and is retiring from his religious duties. The move comes after a report issued last year revealed a large number of cases of child sexual abuse in the French Catholic Church. “Thirty-five years ago, when I was a priest, I behaved in a reprehensible way with a young girl of 14,” Ricard said in a written statement....