Court clears French cardinal of shielding alleged paedophile priest (2) Jean-Félix Luciani, a lawyer for Cardinal Barbarin, welcomes the decision of a Court of Appeal in Lyon to release his client, who had been given a six-month suspended jail sentence last March for not reporting that a priest in his diocese, Bernard Preynat, had allegedly abused dozens of boy scouts in the 1980s and 1990s. Preynat has been defrocked and is awaiting a ruling on March 16 in his trial on sex abuse charges.\\n(COMPLETE VIDI1OJ80G_EN) SOUNDBITES