UNITED KINGDOM
Digital Journal
By Eko Armunanto
Mar 3, 2013
The disgraced U.K. cardinal finally admits his bad sexual conduct. O’Brien initially rejected the claims, saying he was resigning because he did not want to distract from the upcoming conclave that will pick a successor to the resigned Pope Benedict XVI.
Following the accusation of inappropriate behaviour and his resignation as reported here in Digital Journal by Robert Myles and Greta McClain, a CNN report Sunday said Cardinal Keith O’Brien acknowledged having engaged in unspecified sexual misbehavior and promised to play no further part in the public life of the church.
Cardinal Keith O’Brien resigned Monday from his position as archbishop of St. Andrews and Edinburgh after a newspaper published unnamed priests’ accounts of unspecified inappropriate behavior.
Cardinal Keith O’Brien who was, in fact, forced to resign by the pope last week, made a dramatic admission that he was guilty of sexual misconduct throughout his career in the Roman Catholic church.
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