(Montreal) Cardinal Gérald Cyprien Lacroix, close advisor to the pope, accused of sexual assault, “categorically denied” Friday denouncing “unfounded allegations” and announced he was withdrawing “temporarily from his activities,” according to a press release from the diocese from 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.