FILE PHOTO: A cardinal skull cap is seen on display at the window of the Gammarelli tailor shop in Rome February 11, 2014. REUTERS/Max Rossi
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis has accepted a request by a Belgian bishop to not be made a cardinal because it might hurt the feelings of victims of sexual abuse, the Belgian bishops conference said on Thursday.
The conference said the pope's decision to name Luc Van Looy, the bishop emeritus of Ghent, a cardinal had received "many positive reactions" but also criticism that as bishop of Ghent "he did not always react vigorously enough against abuses".
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