SCOTLAND
BBC News
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A Scotland-based Vatican adviser and the journalist who broke the story about the sexual conduct of Cardinal Keith O’Brien have argued about when the Roman Catholic church first knew details of the story.
Prof John Haldane, who is a professor of philosophy at St Andrews University and papal adviser to the Vatican, told a special Newsnight Scotland debating panel that the church only learned of the allegations nine days ago.
Catherine Deveney wrote The Observer piece in which three serving priests and one former priest accused the cardinal, who has now stepped down from public office, of “inappropriate behaviour” towards them.
She told the debate: “It is not quite accurate to say the Scottish Catholic Church did not know what was going on because there was an intermediary within the Catholic Church who took the complaints to the Papal Nuncio.”
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