Paris Archbishop allegedly involved in 'intimate relationship' with woman resigns

The alleged relationship got here to gentle as a result of a love electronic mail Aupetit despatched to his secretary by mistake in 2012, when he was the Vicar-General of Paris, in accordance with Le Point.

Despite admitting in the Le Point article that his conduct "towards her may have been ambiguous, implying the existence between us of an intimate relationship and sexual intercourse," Aupetit has firmly denied that something truly occurred between him and the woman in query."Those who knew me then, and who shared my daily life, could certainly testify that I was not maintaining a double life as the article suggests," he mentioned in an interview with Radio Notre Dame on November 27. "I recognize, as I have already said, that I mismanaged a situation with a person who came to me on numerous occasions. I confided this error to my spiritual guide and the ecclesiastical authority was informed."Aupetit's resignation comes at a time when the general public picture of the French Catholic Church has been broken by the discharge of a damning report in October which says that members of the Catholic clergy in France sexually abused an estimated 216,000 minors over the previous seven many years.The variety of abused minors rises to an estimated 330,000 when together with victims of people that weren't clergy however had different {links} to the Church, corresponding to Catholic faculties and youth packages.The French Catholic Church has steered that it's going to promote church properties to finance compensation to sexual abuse victims. Aupetit shouldn't be accused of sexually abusing kids.In the identical assertion saying Aupetit's resignation, the Vatican appointed Mons. Georges Pontier as his successor.