Cardinal Barbarin on trial over alleged child sex abuse cover-up The highest-profile Catholic cleric to be caught up in a paedophile scandal in France goes on trial today charged with failing to report a priest who abused boy scouts in the 1980s and 90s. Cardinal Philippe Barbarin, the archbishop of Lyon in southeastern France, is accused along with five others from his diocese of helping cover up abuse in one of the parishes in the area. IMAGES