SCOTLAND
BBC News
By Deirdre Kelly
BBC Scotland
Cardinal Keith O’Brien had a strong voice in his role as one of the UK’s most senior Roman Catholic clergymen.
The 74-year-old has now stepped down as an archbishop and revealed that he will not travel to Rome to take part in the election of the next Pope.
He had most recently sparked controversy when he locked horns with the Scottish government over its plans to enshrine same-sex marriage in law by 2015.
A year ago the cardinal put on record his view that gay marriage was a “grotesque subversion of a universally accepted human right”.
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