Archbishop Michel Aupetit in April 2019 in Paris
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Archbishop Aupetit of Paris has admitted to violating celibacy. The Pope accepted his resignation. However, it is not an admission of guilt, but a “gesture of humility,” says Aupetit.
D.he Catholic Church in France is not coming to rest. On Thursday, Pope Francis accepted the resignation of the Archbishop of Paris, Michel Aupetit. “I beg your pardon from those I may have hurt,” wrote Michel Aupetit in a communiqué under the heading “The Lord has given, the Lord has taken”. The 70-year-old churchman had admitted to having had an “ambiguous relationship with a woman” in 2012, as the diocese announced. But it was not a “love affair” or a “sexual relationship”, it said. Aupetit informed his superiors about the relationship at the time.
“First of all, I would like to say that I am deeply sorry for the serious confusion of the faithful, who have gone through so much since the Notre Dame fire,” said Aupetit on the Notre Dame radio station, run by the Archdiocese of Paris. “Covid, the abuse report and now this magazine article that questions me a lot,” he said. “I have to admit that I was shocked myself when I read it and wondered if so many people really want me to leave,” he said on the radio.
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