Pope Francis on Tuesday removed a
Canadian bishop accused of sexual abuse of children in Quebec.
Despite being hospitalized at Rome's Policlinico Agostino
Gemelli Hospital and having his therapy changed due to a complex
clinical picture, Francis is continuing to carry out his duties
of governing the Church.
The Pontiff has accepted the resignation from the pastoral
governance of the Diocese of Baie-Comeau, in Canada, presented
by Monsignor Jean-Pierre Blais, Vatican sources said.
Blais, 75, is mentioned in a list of sexual predators filed as
part of a victims' class action against the Archdiocese of
Quebec.
Francis has therefore appointed as bishop of Baie-Comeau Father
Pierre Charland, until now provincial minister of the
Franciscans of Canada.
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