Mass No-Show by Cardinal Keith O'Brien after 'Inappropriate Behaviour' Claims

By Mike Wade, Nick Drainey
The Times
February 24, 2013

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/faith/article3697783.ece

Mike Wade, Nick Drainey

Cardinal Keith O’Brien, Britain’s most senior Catholic cleric, this morning

failed to appear at High Mass in Edinburgh after allegations of

inappropriate behaviour were levelled against him.

Cardinal O’Brien was due to deliver a homily to Pope Benedict XVI at St Mary’s

RC Cathedral, but instead the service was led Stephen Robson, the Auxiliary

Bishop of Edinburgh.

The allegations, by three priests and a former priest from the diocese of St

Andrews and Edinburgh, claim that Cardinal O’Brien had committed

“inappropriate acts” going back 33 years. They have been reported to nuncio

Antonio Mennini, the Vatican’s Ambassador to Britain.