UNITED KINGDOM
The Times
Mike Wade, Nick Drainey
Cardinal Keith O’Brien, Britain’s most senior Catholic cleric, this morning failed to appear at High Mass in Edinburgh after allegations of inappropriate behaviour were levelled against him.
Cardinal O’Brien was due to deliver a homily to Pope Benedict XVI at St Mary’s RC Cathedral, but instead the service was led Stephen Robson, the Auxiliary Bishop of Edinburgh.
The allegations, by three priests and a former priest from the diocese of St Andrews and Edinburgh, claim that Cardinal O’Brien had committed “inappropriate acts” going back 33 years.
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