UPDATE 1-Convicted French cardinal meets pope after saying he would resign
The Vatican's daily list of papal audiences confirmed that the meeting took place but gave no details. It did not say if the pope had accepted any resignation. Barbarin, 68, the highest-profile cleric to be caught up in the child sex abuse scandal inside the French Church, was handed a six-month suspended prison sentence on March 7.
Barbarin is appealing against the verdict. But after the hearing, he said he planned to travel to the Vatican and hand in his resignation. The court in Lyon ruled that between July 2014 and June 2015 he covered up allegations of sexual abuse of boy scouts in the 1980s and early 1990s by a priest who is due to go on trial later this year.
Barbarin has denied concealing allegations that Father Bernard Preynat abused dozens of boys more than a decade before he arrived in the Lyon diocese in 2002. Preynat has admitted sexual abuse, according to his lawyer. The trial put Europe's senior clergy in the spotlight at a time when the pope is grappling with criticism over the Church's response to a sexual abuse crisis that has gravely damaged its standing around the globe. (Reporting by Philip Pullella; Editing by Alison Williams and Andrew Heavens)
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