French cardinal found guilty of covering up child sex abuse

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The Vatican been has been rocked once again after a French court convicted a French cardinal of covering child sex abuse allegations.
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Aram…. another revelation in a scandal that has really started to take its toll on the Roman Catholic church.

That right Mark… The archbishop of Lyon, Philippe Barbarin, is one of France's most senior religious figures.
He has been found guilty of failing to act on historic allegations of sexual abuse of boy scouts under his watch between 2014 and 2015.
The Lyon court handed down a six-month suspended prison sentence on Thursday.
The 68-year old cardinal was not present in the court to hear his conviction.
Barbarin's lawyer said he will be appealing the ruling, adding he was not convinced by the court's ruling.
The lawyer also claimed the court's ruling was due to mounting public pressure as a result of documentaries and a film about the case.
Barbarin, meanwhile, said he would be going to Rome in the coming days to hand in his resignation to Pope Francis.
He denied covering up for a priest from his diocese, Bernard Preynat, who has admitted to committing sexual abuse in the 1990s.
Preynat is due to go on trial later this year.