Cardinal Ouellet said in a statement on Tuesday that he was suing a woman who accused him of sexual assault more than a decade ago when he was the archbishop of Quebec.
A prominent figure at the Vatican, Canadian Cardinal Marc Armand Ouellet is the Prefect of the Dicastery for Bishops and President of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America.
His statement was a response to "unfounded accusations of alleged sexual assault" made against him in August 2022.
The accusations came as part of a class action lawsuit against the Quebec archdiocese that alleged cases of sexual assault by some 88 clergy and staff working there starting in 1940.
