UNITED KINGDOM
The Telegraph
By Stephen HoughSociety
Last updated: February 25th, 2013
Cardinal Keith O’Brien has been forced into retirement slightly earlier than expected. If the accusations against him are false then we’ve seen a despicable use of media power to spread lies and cause scandal. It’s one of the nastiest of modern sins.
But if the accusations are true there’s an opportunity here for a moment of Church-changing, life-enhancing heroism. Cardinal O’Brien has within his hands the potential to preach the Gospel with more power now than ever before, to touch more people’s hearts than at any other time in his priestly life. He’s holding a stick of spiritual dynamite in his anointed hands.
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