SCOTLAND
BBC News
Scotland’s First Minister Alex Salmond said he was saddened to hear of the resignation of Cardinal Keith O’Brien.
Britain’s most senior Roman Catholic stepped down as Archbishop of St Andrews and Edinburgh after claims of “inappropriate behaviour” with priests.
Mr Salmond had clashed with the cardinal over his government’s same-sex marriage bill plans.
Cardinal O’Brien said gay marriage was a “grotesque subversion of a universally accepted human right”.
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