Canadian bishop accused of sex abuse in Quebec class-action suit resigns

Pope Francis said that he had accepted the discharge of a Canadian bishop that has been mentioned in a lawsuit in the right facility against the church claimed all the church.

The Pope did not give a reason for replacing Jean-Pierre Blais of Baie-Pierre Come-In the Commanded French speaking Province Quebec, and the terrible was not linked to the accusations. He called a replacement: Reverend Pierre Charland, 62, currently a leading member of Canada’s Roman Catholic Franciscan order.

In a statement, the pope noticed that every bishop that becomes 75 is automatically applied to offer his discharge. The pope makes a decision on or the offer accepts “after he has buried all circumstances,” said the statement.

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Blais is mentioned in a list of sexual predators submitted as part of the class of a victims against the nice ABUTEBEC. He has refused criminal.

“The nomination of a new bishop … is not linked to the consideration of Bishop Block,” The Diie-Comeau said, who is the policy of the church that strolled 75 to provide.

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Blais wouldn’t talk to the media, it added.

ArmReport by David Ljunggren, edit by Caroline Stauffer, Hugh Lawson and David Gregorio