Vatican Sends Cardinal O'Brien into Monastic Exile

By Mike Wade
The Times
May 16, 2013

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/faith/article3766384.ece?CMP=OTH-gnws-standard-2013_05_15

Cardinal Keith O’Brien faces months in exile after he was ordered by Pope Francis to pay penance in a monastery after his admission of sexual advances towards young priests.

Cardinal O’Brien would be leaving “for several months for the purpose of spiritual renewal, prayer and penance”, according to a Vatican statement that was written “in agreement with the Holy Father”.