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Pope rules that there is insufficient evidence to investigate Canada's cardinal

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VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis has determined that there is not enough evidence to open a church investigation into Canada's Cardinal Marc Ouellet over sexual assault allegations, the Vatican City said in a statement Thursday. Stated.

Ouellet was named earlier this week in a class action lawsuit against the Catholic Diocese of Quebec, alleging instances of sexual assault by some 88 priests and staff who had worked in the parish since 1940.

(by Reporting Crispian Balmer, edited by Philip Pullella)

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