SCOTLAND
International Business Times
By Hannah Osborne
March 22, 2013
An vociferously anti-gay cardinal,who was Britain’s most senior Catholic cleric, is secretly homosexual and had a long-term physical relationship with a male lover, a newspaper has alleged.
Herald Scotland claims Keith O’Brien had a physical relationship with one of the men whose complaints led to his resignation as leader of the Catholic Church in Scotland.
O’Brien, once one of the Catholic church’s most vigorous campaigners against homosexuality, officially left his post in February amid allegations of “inappropriate behaviour”.
The Vatican accepted his resignation in November and it came into effect three months later.
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