Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - In this Jan.7, 2019 file photo, Cardinal Philippe Barbarin listens to his lawyers, Jean-Felix Luciani, 2nd right, and Andre ...

NEWS ANALYSIS: An overview of the legal stakes of Cardinal Barbarin’s criminal conviction, just ahead of his audience with Pope Francis. Cardinal Philippe Barbarin of Lyon, Francis, departs a news ...

French Cardinal Philippe Barbarin, accused of covering up sex abuse, is a hardline Catholic who has been outspoken against gay marriage and championed the cause of Christians persecuted in Iraq and ...

A French appeals court Thursday overturned a cardinal's conviction for shielding an alleged child-molesting priest in a case that fuelled accusations of a Catholic Church coverup of sex abuse by ...

Cardinal Barbarin was accused of not reporting instances of abuse to judicial authorities between July 2014 and June 2015, in a case involving Fr. Bernard Preynat, who has been accused of abusing ...

Cardinal Philippe Barbarin was last March given a six-month suspended jail sentence for not reporting a priest who had allegedly abused dozens of boy scouts AFP / JEFF PACHOUD A French appeals court ...