Cardinal Keith O’Brien keeps low profile after shock resignation as former Church leader calls for renewal and reform

SCOTLAND
Daily Record

AS the Cardinal worked from home an ex-leader of England’s Catholics says the next Pope must put his house in order.

CARDINAL Keith O’Brien seemed to be working away like normal in his study yesterday – despite claims he was “very upset” over the circumstances of his shock resignation.

The day after he stepped down as Britain’s most senior Catholic, the 74-year-old remained behind closed doors in his official residence in Edinburgh’s Morningside.

As O’Brien was making calls and talking into a dictaphone, a former leader of Catholics in England and Wales called for the “Pope’s own house to be put in order”.

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