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In a statement issued on Jan. 3, the Archdiocese of Paris said it was not 'able to verify whether the facts in question were proven, nor if they constituted an offense.'
Originally from Dijon in eastern France, Archbishop Ulrich is the 142nd archbishop of Paris.
During an in-flight press conference on Dec. 6, 2021, the Pope told journalists he had accepted Archbishop Aupetit’s resignation because the archbishop had “lost his reputation so publicly.”
At the end of their plenary assembly in November, the bishops knelt in an act of penance in Lourdes as an image of a weeping child was unveiled and an abuse victim shared their testimony.
“If you can no longer eat with a friend without a paparazzo taking pictures of you, what kind of world do we live in?” the archbishop asked.
Archbishop Aupetit’s words were applauded by the congregation of around 2,000 people gathered in the city’s second-largest church after Notre-Dame Cathedral.
COMMENTARY: Who would want a position where the gossip of others leads to a downfall, even if the Holy Father protests the ‘injustice’ while accepting the resignation?
The Pope’s decision comes within a week of the 70-year-old archbishop’s request to have Pope Francis decide his future out of a concern to preserve the unity of his archdiocese amid the controversy.
The Pope responded to the CIASE report the day after its publication, describing it as “a moment of shame.”
“This cathedral is also the symbol of the restoration of this Church founded 2,000 years ago by Christ himself,” the archbishop said in his homily on the evening of June 16.
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