A group of victims of sexual
abuse by a Catholic priest in the 1980s have written a letter to
Pope Francis requesting a private audience in the Vatican, said
French daily Le Parisien on Monday.
The victims are former scouts from the outskirts of Lyon
who accused Father Bernard Preynat of abuse through the early
1990s.
The letter asks for an explanation of why Preynat wasn't
suspended until 2015, despite the fact that Lyon archbishop
Cardinal Philippe Barbarin was informed of the abuse in 2007.
"Locking himself in silence, our cardinal lost all
credibility," the letter said, appealing to Pope Francis as "our
supreme moral reference", without, however, asking for any
specific disciplinary actions or sanctions against Barbarin.
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