SCOTLAND
BBC News

One of Scotland’s leading scholars and ethicists has said she feels “compassion” for Cardinal Keith O’Brien following his resignation.

At the launch of Catholic Scholars Declaration on Authority in the Church, Baroness Helena Kennedy said she felt “sad for him and for his victims”.

The group is lobbying for more openness in the Roman Catholic Church.

Cardinal O’Brien resigned as an archbishop of St Andrews and Edinburgh amid claims of inappropriate conduct.