Quebec Cardinal Gerald Lacroix temporarily
steps down after sexual assault allegations
Cardinal Gerald Lacroix, one of the top Roman Catholic clergymen in Canada, on Friday stepped down temporarily after he was named in a class-action lawsuit against the church that alleged sexual assault.
Local media said Lacroix’s name had been added to a list of alleged perpetrators filed in a Quebec court on Thursday.
In a statement, the Quebec diocese said Lacroix, 66, had announced to co-workers he was temporarily withdrawing from his activities until the situation could be clarified.
“He categorically denies the allegations against him,” it said. The lawsuit, authorized by the court in 2022, represents more than 100 people who were alleged to have been sexually assaulted by 88 priests and staff working at the Quebec diocese starting in 1940.
It also names Marc Ouellet, a former Vatican cardinal from Canada who stepped down from his position last year. Last December, Ouellet, 79, said he was suing a woman who accused him of sexual assault more than a decade ago when he was the archbishop of Quebec.
The suit includes the names of priests who served in the diocese and at educational institutions, including the Quebec seminary. Most of those named are dead.
And.... in Heaven? Or, burning in Hell? I have come to believe that those who cannot bridle their sexual passion in this lifetime, are in great danger of burning in Hell, not with fire, but with passion that will never be quenched.
Where ‘Their worm does not die And the fire is not quenched.’ - Mark 9:44-48.
Is it any wonder the Catholic Church has so dramatically failed in Quebec in the past 60 years or so?
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