UNITED KINGDOM
Telegraph
Cardinal Keith O’Brien, the disgraced former head of the Roman Catholic Church in Scotland, has been accused of sexually assaulting a priest when he was already a Cardinal.
By John Bingham, Religious Affairs Editor, Vatican City
4:35PM GMT 16 Mar 2013
He is alleged to have attempted to grope the man in Rome on the night of a drinks party to celebrate becoming a “prince of the Church” in October 2003, attended by a raft of bishops and dignitaries.
It is the first allegation to relate directly to his time as a Cardinal and the first suggestion that his sexual misconduct extended to the centre of the Catholic Church.
It follows an admission by the Cardinal that he was guilty of sexual misconduct, with his personal standards falling below those expected of him “as a priest, archbishop and cardinal”.
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