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The Vatican has confirmed the disgraced Cardinal Keith O’Brien will leave Scotland for several months following revelations about his sexual conduct.

Authorities in Rome said his departure had been decided “in agreement with the Holy Father,” but stopped short of saying whether Pope Francis had personally intervened.

But will this move draw a line under an affair that has added to a sense of crisis in the Catholic Church in Scotland? And what message does it send about how the Church deals with those who have abused their power?

Scotland Tonight hears from the journalist who broke the story on Cardinal O’Brien, Catherine Deveney, and the Scotsman writer Stephen McGinty, author of a biography of the late Cardinal Winning.