UNITED KINGDOM
Hollywood Reporter
LONDON – The resignation of Britain’s most senior representative of the Roman Catholic church, Cardinal Keith O’Brien, pushed Adele, Daniel Day Lewis and the other British-born Oscar winners down in U.K. news coverage on Monday.
The Oscars led early morning news shows as the best picture award was handed out in the early hours of Monday morning here.
Then, O’Brien’s resignation hit the headlines amid claims, which he contests, of “inappropriate behavior,” meaning sexual advances, towards priests dating back to the 1980s. The news began to dominate the British news agenda with it leading the BBC and ITV news reports starting mid-morning Monday.
It follows revelations in Sunday newspaper The Observer, which reported that three priests and one former priest complained about O’Brien to the Pope’s representative in Britain earlier this month, when Pope Benedict announced his shock resignation.
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