SCOTLAND
Daily Record
Joan Burnie
NO doubt by resigning, Cardinal O’Brien has done the right thing, at least by his church.
And, anyway, it had zilch to do with those unfortunate allegations over the weekend.
Nothing whatsoever. Just a happy, or possibly, unhappy coincidence.
As if we ever thought anything else.
But whether the Catholic Church – and indeed throughout his time in office, the Cardinal has done itself any favours with its strident obsession with sex and peripheral issues, such as gay marriage, is debatable.
I’m not religious but I have long thought that if the hierarchy had concentrated more on matters of social injustice instead of a downright unhealthy, if publicity-generating, interest in what consenting adults do with each other in private, they might be more respected.
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