Paris Archbishop: Francis "Got The Story a Bit Mixed Up"
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“I cannot accept that my silence is interpreted as an admission of guilt,” Aupetit told LeParisien.fr (December 15). About the woman he was allegedly involved in 2012 he said,
“She was a person who, as often happens when you are a priest or a doctor, gets attached because she suffers from loneliness. She wrote to me every day. I answered a letter, and my secretary was able to read it, since we shared the same e-mail box. There was no affair. Once, this person had a backache. I gave her a massage to relieve her. I remind you that I am a physician.”
Aupetit also said that some years ago, he reported the matter to his superiors, "There is really nothing new in this case."
LeParisien.fr recalls that Francis spoke of "’caresses’ and ‘massages’ given to a secretary.” Aupetit’s reply; “I think he got the story a bit mixed up. My poor secretary had nothing to do with it. I know her husband and family well. I baptized her grandchildren."
Aupetit says he would have had the force to carry on, had Francis not accepted his resignation, and he answers in the affirmative when asked whether he thinks he is the “victim of a cabal.”
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