Bishop Emmanuel Lafont (center) addresses the crowd during a protest against same-sex marriage in Cayenne, French Guyana, on Jan. 12, 2013. / Photo credit JODY AMIET/AFP via Getty ImagesDenver, Colo., Dec 20, 2022 / 15:45 pm (CNA).Bishop Emeritus Emmanuel Lafont of Cayenne, French Guyana, has been found guilty of sexual abuse in a canonical court and banned from public ministry, while the country s civil authorities are investigating charges against him."He is under house arrest, in a monastery on mainland France," the Bishops Conference of France told Agence France Presse. He must conduct a life of prayer and repentance. The bishops conference confirmed that the bishop faces a civil investigation.Numerous sources have confirmed to the French newspaper La Croix that the Vatican s Dicastery for Bishops delivered a guilty sentence against the bishop emeritus in October.As a consequence of the judgment against him, he may not wear his bishop s insignia, the miter, or use a cro