French court overturns earlier guilty verdict on cardinal Barbarin

French court overturns earlier guilty verdict on cardinal Barbarin
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A French appeals court on Thursday overturned an earlier ruling against Philippe Barbarin, a Roman Catholic cardinal who was convicted last year of failing to report sexual abuse charges.

Barbarin, 69, had been the highest-profile cleric to be caught up in a child sex abuse scandal inside the French Catholic Church.

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