Belgian media says the country's ultraconservative Roman Catholic
archbishop was hit by a pie in the face during an All Saints Day
service.
Footage of the incident released Saturday showed a young
man approaching Archbishop Andre Leonard on Monday and smacking him with
a pie.
A church official says the archbishop will not press charges
against the unknown attacker.
The incident came amid growing
turmoil within Belgium's Roman Catholic church, which faces an
investigation into hundreds of cases of sexual abuse of children by
Catholic priests.
Leonard himself shocked Catholics by sympathizing with
priests accused of pedophilia and by saying that homosexuals deserved
to get AIDS.
On Tuesday, Leonard's spokesman quit his job, saying he could no longer speak for a "loose canon."
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