UNITED KINGDOM
Daily Mail
By Guy Adams
Cardinal Keith O’Brien took time out from official duties last week to concentrate on one of the things he loves best: getting himself into the news.
After summoning the BBC to his private chapel in Edinburgh at 3pm on Thursday, the de facto leader of Scotland’s 750,000 Catholics declared it was time for his church to end a thousand years of tradition, by allowing priests to marry.
‘It’s a free world,’ he announced, in comments splashed across Saturday’s papers, ‘and I realise that many priests have found it very difficult to keep with celibacy as they lived in the priesthood and have felt the need for … companionship.’
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