The Vatican said on Friday it was launching a preliminary investigation into French cardinal Jean-Pierre Ricard, after he admitted to a "reprehensible" act on a 14-year-old.
VATICAN City, Holy See —The Vatican said on Friday it was launching a preliminary investigation into French cardinal Jean-Pierre Ricard, after he admitted to a "reprehensible" act on a 14-year-old.
"In order to properly examine what happened, it has been decided to open a preliminary inquiry," spokesman Matteo Bruni told journalists in the Vatican's first public reaction to the scandal. French prosecutors said on Tuesday that they had launched an inquiry into Ricard, a long-standing bishop of Bordeaux who was made a cardinal by Pope Benedict XVI in 2006.
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