The Pope defends the bishop of Paris who resigned due to a relationship with a woman and says that it is not “a grave sin”

The Pope Francisco today defended the bishop of Paris, Michel Aupetit, of the one who accepted his resignation for having maintained an improper relationship with a woman, but said that it was not “a serious sin” and that he made that decision “not because of the truth”, but because “he was placed on the altar of hypocrisy” .

SIGHT: Archbishop of Paris presents his resignation to the pope for “ambiguous” behavior with a woman

Francisco accepted a few days ago the resignation of Aupetit, who put his position at the pontiff’s disposal after the French press revealed that he had a relationship with a woman in 2012.

However, the pontiff assured that it is not well known what they are accusing him of, he asked journalists “what he had done so serious” and when he did not receive an answer he said: “If we do not know the accusation, we cannot convict.”

• Pope Francis denounces in Lesbos the “shipwreck of civilization” that abandons migrants
• Francis warns from Greece against the “nationalist egoisms” of Europe
• The Pope once again shakes consciences at the drama of migration

He assured that the most serious sins “are others such as pride, hatred” and that the bishop is a sinner “as we all are.”

Then, Francisco criticized that it has come to this by “telling gossip that makes you lose your reputation.”

“Because of gossip a man has had his reputation taken away and he cannot govern and this is an injustice. That is why I have accepted the resignation, but not on the altar of truth but on the altar of hypocrisy ”, he clarified.

Aupetit announced last Friday that he had placed his position at the disposal of Francisco after denying the information published by the weekly Le Point, according to which he had an affair with that woman, but acknowledged an “ambiguous relationship”, according to the diocese, which led to withdraw “so as not to harm” the institution.

“The painful events of last week, about which I have already spoken, led me to put my mission in the hands of Pope Francis to preserve the diocese from the division that always cause suspicion and mistrust,” said the former archbishop about the decision. of the pontiff to accept his resignation.

___________________________

• Next pandemic could be “worse or deadlier,” warns Oxford / AstraZeneca vaccine creator
• How the new Super Green Pass complicates social life for the unvaccinated in Italy
• Flight MH370: can one of the great mysteries of aviation finally be solved?
• Plumber finds money hidden in the wall of a megachurch (and could have solved a mysterious robbery from 2014)
• They find dead a young Brazilian woman who was missing and who was forced to dig her own grave
• US Congressman Releases Christmas Family Photo With Guns, Days After School Shooting

.

Deshawn