Appeals judges on Thursday overturned a French cardinal's conviction for failing to report alleged sex abuse by a priest, in a case that has rocked the French Catholic Church. Cardinal Philippe Barbarin, 69, had been given a six-month suspended jail sentence last March for not reporting that a priest in his diocese had allegedly abused dozens of boy scouts in the 1980s and 1990s. mb-ag-dfa/mlr/js/klm