(Montreal) Canadian Cardinal Gérald Cyprien Lacroix, close adviser to the pope, accused in his country of sexual assault, “categorically denied” Friday denouncing “unfounded allegations” and announced that he was withdrawing “temporarily from his activities”, according to a press release from the diocese of Quebec.
Aged 66, the man who has been archbishop of Quebec since 2011 and cardinal since 2014 is accused of “touching” by a minor at the time of the facts, as part of a collective action which targets more than a hundred members of the diocese of Quebec.